Members of Congress will have access to unredacted copies of the more than three million documents from the Epstein files that have already been released, Axios reports.
Last week, House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DoJ) requesting to see the “complete unredacted Epstein files.”
“We seek to ensure that your redactions comply with the [Epstein Transparency] Act’s requirement that materials be withheld only in narrow circumstances, such as protecting victims’ personally identifiable information, and not on the basis of ‘embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary,’” Raskin wrote.
House members and Senators will now be given full access to unredacted copies of the files starting on Monday, via computers in the reading room at the DoJ building in Washington DC.
In a letter to Congress, assistant attorney general Patrick Davis said the review is “in keeping with the Department of Justice’s commitment to maximum transparency regarding our compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.”
“We are confident that this review will further demonstrate the Department’s good faith work to appropriately process an enormous volume of documents in a very short time.”