"Ms Bondi responded to the criticism in many cases with personal attacks on representatives and praise for president Donald Trump. She said more than 500 Justice Department lawyers worked on a compressed timeline to review reams of material. Any disclosure of victims' identities was inadvertent, she said. "I have spent my entire career fighting for victims, and I will continue to do so," Ms Bondi said in her opening stat"
"The Justice Department released what it called a final tranche of more than three million pages of documents late last month, drawing renewed attention to wealthy and powerful individuals who maintained ties with Epstein even after his conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor. Politicians have complained that redactions in the files appear to go beyond the limited exemptions allowed for in a law Congress passed nearly unanimously in November. The department has also declined to publish a large volume of material, citing legal privileges."
Thomas Massie accused the Justice Department of a "massive failure" to comply with a law after billionaire Leslie Wexner's name was redacted from an FBI list of potential co-conspirators in the Epstein sex-trafficking probe. Ms Bondi said the department unredacted Wexner's name within 40 minutes and that his name appeared in other released files. Committee members expressed frustration that redactions and withheld materials seem to exceed the narrow exemptions in a nearly unanimous congressional law. The Justice Department released a final tranche of more than three million pages, drawing renewed attention to powerful individuals tied to Epstein. The department cited legal privileges while defending a compressed review by over 500 lawyers and said any disclosure of victims' identities was inadvertent.
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