Bondi: The Buck Stops At Blanche RE: The Jeffy Files. "I delegated oversight over this process"

[Miles Archer]

Former Attorney General Pam Bondi told the House Oversight Committee on Friday that then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche was in charge of the Justice Department’s botched release of the Jeffrey Epstein files and acknowledged that there were “redaction errors” in the handling of documents, according to Bondi’s opening statement obtained by MS NOW.

“As the head of a large Department with broad responsibilities, I did not lead every aspect of this effort or conduct that document review myself,” Bondi said in her prepared remarks. “I delegated oversight over this process to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.” Blanche was named acting attorney general in April after Bondi was fired by President Donald Trump.

Bondi told the panel in her transcribed voluntary interview that the search for, collection and review of the DOJ’s Epstein documents was “an enormously complicated and labor intensive process,” according to the statement.

Although she conceded that the documents released had “redaction errors” — which included victims’ names and other identifying information, the publication of nude photos of women and girls, and the redaction of names of potential co-conspirators — Bondi said the department “has been committed to accountability and transparency.”

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