The effort required significant time and personnel resources from the Justice Department, pulling top prosecutors from D.C., Florida and New York to review the files. The Justice Department has redacted the files for any information that could identify a victim, he said. Blanche attempted to bat down conspiracy theories Friday and said that there was no classified material in the Epstein files. On Friday, Rep. Robert Garcia (California), the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, reiterated that the Justice Department had already defied the committee’s Aug. 5 subpoena. Unlike the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which allows for redactions, the subpoena requires Attorney General Pam Bondi to release the full, unredacted Epstein files to the committee, including any classified materials and information tied to ongoing investigations.
