Just hours after Attorney General Pam Bondi vowed during a Fox News interview to release the flight logs and the names contained within that were connected to financial bigwig and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, it appears that she has followed through on that televised promise.
Thursday afternoon, a collection of conservative influencers exited the White House showing off binders bearing the seal of the Department of Justice and labeled “The Epstein Files: Phase 1.”
However, Bondi had warned that some of the information in those logs could be redacted in order to protect the over 250 victims of Epstein’s sex crimes, and at first glance, it certainly appears that redactions are rampant across the documents, and that they don’t appear to contain any information not already reported to the public.
Meanwhile, the document release, even with redactions, drew criticism from several Republican lawmakers.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida leads the Republican government transparency task force.
“I nor the task force were given or reviewed the Epstein documents being released today … A NY Post story just revealed that the documents will simply be Epstein’s phonebook,” Luna posted on X. “THIS IS NOT WHAT WE OR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ASKED FOR and a complete disappointment. GET US THE INFORMATION WE ASKED FOR!”
Some have also questioned whether the binders, marked “declassified,” contain any information that was ever classified to begin with.