Epstein Files Update as Pam Bondi Admits 'Glitches'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Newsweek

Published Jan 16, 2026 at 08:24 AM EST updated Jan 16, 2026 at 08:25 AM EST


The Department of Justice (DOJ) has made "substantial progress" in its review of the documents related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, an effort that has faced "inevitable glitches," Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a letter to two federal judges. In the letter to U.S. District Judges Richard Berman and Paul Engelmeyer, filed on Thursday, Bondi wrote that the department has more than 500 people assigned to the review and make redactions to the files.

The letter did not provide a timeline for when the review may be complete, but said the DOJ "is working to complete this review as expeditiously as possible without compromising victims’ privacy." Newsweek has contacted the DOJ for comment via an message sent through a contact form on its website.

Why It Matters

The Trump administration has faced criticism over its failure to meet the December 19 deadline to release everything it has on Epstein, as was required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Administration officials have said the delay is due to the large volume of materials and the need to maintain the anonymity of Epstein’s victims. But the delay in the release has frustrated lawmakers and victims, and prompted calls for investigations and potential penalties against the DOJ and its leadership.

Last week, Representatives Ro Khanna (Dem) and Thomas Massie (GOP), who co-authored the law mandating the document release, asked a judge to special master and independent monitor to oversee the DOJ’s release of its files on Epstein.


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[Baitball Blogger]

1. Pam Bondi is upset because the veterans are leaving the DOJ because she knows she

absolutely has no idea how anything works. She made an assumption a long time ago that she was born to be the bosshog, but now that she's in the position she finally is intelligent enough to know that her orders border on incompetence and contempt of court. And there is no one in the office she can rely on to learn how to avoid looking like a fool.

[travelingthrulife]

7. Her only job is to protect Trump and the GOP.

She has been covering for the Trump-Epstein trafficking ring since she was Fla AG in 2011.

[sheshe2]

23. Exactly!

By her standards, she is doing the job she was hired for.

[drray23]

25. I have a different take on it.

Bondi is doing whatever is necessary to protect Trump and does not care if she looks like a fool doing it. She might well know what she is doing.

[RockCreek]

2. Release as they go

That would also show proof of progress.
Daily headlines on releases...on no!! That's a first appropriate consequence for not meeting the legal deadline.

[JawJaw]

8. Yes, we're not greedy.

Perhaps 10% every month?

[bluestarone]

3. Show the judge what you have TODAY

[PSPS]

4. Standard "run out the clock" tactic

Invade Greenland, invade Cuba, declare martial law, insurrection act, bomb Minneapolis, cancel this year's elections, anything to get this out of the news at least until all the republican perpetrators die or kill themselves.

[Paladin]

5. I think we all know whose anonymity the DOJ is concerned with, at this point.

And it damn sure isn't the anonymity of the victims...

[Vinca]

6. Guess the king's name is showing up too often so it's taking longer to redact.

[Marie Marie]

11. We're gonna need a bigger box of Sharpies.

[twodogsbarking]

9. It wouldn't be dufficult to get someone to read to you if you can't, well, read.

[LiberalLovinLug]

10. "Glitches"

ie...They had no idea how many redactions they had to make. How many times Trump is in them.

[hadEnuf]

12. She is purposely suppressing evidence and obstructing justice.

They can call it whatever else they want to make up.

[flvegan]

13. Zero consequences, as usual. It'll get "completed" when they damn well please.

I'm sure the "aw, c'mon. please?" requests being made of the DOJ and the court are being taken most seriously.

Hence the aforementioned lack of consequences.

[wolfie001]

14. Lying nazi scum she is

Repulsive evil harridan.

[2naSalit]

16. Gawd...

I hate that whore so much.

[wolfie001]

17. .....

[2naSalit]

15. Well...

Step it up queenie, we the people are still waiting so that the VICTIMS can move forward.

[azureblue]

18. nothing but

more excuses and more sandbagging. She lies. Again.

[WestMichRad]

19. "Inevitable Glitches"

[Evolve Dammit]

20. ONE percent so far

[pfitz59]

21. She means Trump is all over the files

and photos and videos. Those of us who remember the nineties and oughts sawTrump and his 'Pagaents'. He was a slobbering pig.

[Aussie105]

22. 'We have millions of Epstein related documents to redact!'

Epstein was never that important, so that is just a red herring.

And why not release them unredacted? (Rhetorical question, that is.)

Let the names of the guilty and victims shine forth!
Open government, full disclosure, that sort of thing.

[turbinetree]

24. Hey Pammy think of what is going to happen after the mid terms..............you have had these documents

ever since the maga senate confirmed you.............

[vapor2]

26. Thomas Massie said he could go on the floor and read the names

so he should since blondi can't follow the law

[evilclown]

27. Bondi is obviously stalling and the court can fashion a remedy

Why has the Court not appointed a special master to redact the files?We cannot trust Bondi and the doj has failed to release the files as required by law and prior orders of the court.