The Department of Justice issued a statement confirming it was now “reviewing” whether some interview reports were “improperly tagged in the review process” and omitted during the public release of the files connected with late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The statement was shared after multiple news outlets reported that the Department of Justice appeared to have withheld dozens of pages of witness notes and reports regarding an alleged Epstein victim who Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) accused President Donald Trump of assaulting when she was a minor. The Department of Justice vowed to publish all documents “found to have been improperly tagged in the review process” in its latest statement addressing the situation.
“Several individuals and news outlets have recently flagged files related to documents produced to Ghislaine Maxwell in discovery of her criminal case that they claim appear to be missing,” a post shared on the Department of Justice Rapid Response X account Wednesday (February 25) states. “As with all documents that have been flagged by the public, the Department is currently reviewing files within that category of the production. Should any document be found to have been improperly tagged in the review process and is responsive to the Act, the Department will of course publish it, consistent with the law.”
Garcia, the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, said he reviewed un-redacted evidence at the Department of Justice on Monday and determined that notes about the witness who accused Trump of committing sexual abuse against her when she was a minor were withheld, though the president has consistently denied all allegations against him in connection with Epstein. The Department of Justice had previously accused Garcia and other Democrats on the House Oversight Committee of “manufacturing outrage” regarding the withheld documents in a post shared on its X account Tuesday (February 24).
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