Bondi to face criticism over Epstein disclosure law at House hearing
Source: Roll Call
Posted February 10, 2026 at 4:13pm
Attorney General Pamela Bondi is set to face House lawmakers at an oversight hearing Wednesday expected to focus in part on a string of controversies stemming from the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein file release. For Bondi, it will be her first appearance before the House Judiciary Committee as attorney general, with controversy swirling around the Justice Department on a wide swath of issues during President Donald Trump’s second term.
Those include the legal justifications for an incursion to arrest Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and military strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean, as well as DOJ’s role in the administration’s immigration enforcement and pursuit of criminal charges against Trump’s political rivals, former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. The high-profile hearing will offer members a rare chance to also press Bondi directly on the department’s compliance with a law Congress passed last year that required making Epstein documents public.
Lawmakers, in passing the bill, hoped to shed light on Epstein’s network and any figures connected to the sexual exploitation of girls. Backers of the law and Epstein survivors say the department overly redacted information that could identify people who may have been co-conspirators or enablers of his abuse, while committing egregious errors in failing to fully redact the names and identifying information of victims.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the panel, told reporters Monday that the department’s redaction decisions run contrary to the law. “We’re going to start by posing questions directly to Attorney General Bondi about the process that produced such flawed results and that has created such mystery,” Raskin said. “The Department of Justice has been in a cover-up mode for many months and has been trying to sweep the entire thing under the rug.”
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