Khanna and Massie press the DOJ on failure to comply with Epstein Transparency Act
Source: MS NOW News
Jul. 9, 2026, 4:43 PM EDT
As acting Attorney General Todd Blanche gets ready to face senators for his confirmation hearing next week, lawmakers are putting his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files back into the spotlight.
Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California and Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky — the leading sponsors of the Epstein Files Transparency Act — wrote a letter to Blanche on Thursday raising concerns about the Justice Department’s failure to release all the unredacted Epstein documents in its possession.
“Congress passed the EFTA to provide disclosure, answers, and accountability,” the lawmakers wrote in the letter, first obtained by MS NOW. “By delaying release and relying on broad redactions, the DOJ is making it harder for journalists and the public to understand the truth.”
The Justice Department did not immediately respond to MS NOW’s request for comment. In January, Blanche said the Justice Department reviewed six million pages of documents related to the Epstein files. But the DOJ only released 3.5 million pages — and lawmakers have raised issue with the redactions in the files, concerned that victim information was left out in the open.
Read more: https://www.ms.now/news/ro-khanna-thomas-massie-doj-epstein-transparency
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