© House Oversight Democrats in Congress have gained access to the full version of the documents.
Starting Monday morning, members of the legislative body will have the opportunity to examine an unredacted form of the Justice Department’s case files concerning Jeffrey Epstein, according to two sources with knowledge of the Justice Department’s intentions, as reported by NBC News.
The letter to members of Congress states that they will be available for viewing in person at the Department of Justice building. Legislators will gain entry to the data via computers within the department’s facility, but are not permitted to handle physical duplicates of the documents.
According to the letter, Congress members can scrutinize the supplied materials on the condition that they notify the Justice Department at least 24 hours in advance. Currently, only lawmakers themselves are granted access, excluding their assistants. They are permitted to jot down notes, but the use of any digital equipment is forbidden.
Simultaneously, the examination will only focus on around 3 million files that are already publicly accessible . It does not encompass the complete collection of over 6 million documents that the Justice Ministry claims to possess.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch pledged to grant members of Congress entry to the materials when he proclaimed last Friday the release of all documents that the department intended to publicize.
Congressmen Thomas Massie and Ro Hanna, who were co-authors of the legislative measure mandating the Justice Department to disclose the trove of documents, subsequently dispatched a letter to Blanch, petitioning for entry to the unedited materials. A parallel appeal was lodged the previous week by Democrats within the House Judiciary Committee.
The letter to Congress was delivered in anticipation of a hearing slated for the following week in the Judiciary Committee, during which Attorney General Pam Bondi is scheduled to give testimony. Lawmakers are advocating for entry to the materials before her appearance at the hearing.
Priority access will be extended to the leadership and members of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, but in due course, all Congress members will have the opportunity to view the materials.
Jeffrey Epstein, a financially influential financier and convicted sex offender, faced indictment in Manhattan federal court in 2019 on charges related to the trafficking of minors for sexual exploitation purposes. He passed away in a jail cell while awaiting trial; his demise was formally declared a suicide.
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