Lee: It is a gross abuse of our ability to conduct oversight. They are essentially spying on us as we are looking through and trying to do any sort of investigation and bring about transparency regarding these Epstein files. I think that is really problematic for that reason — that they are spying on members of Congress who are doing their job. Also, why should we have to do this at the end of the day? These files shouldn’t have been redacted in that way in the first place. They’ve redacted the names of people who perpetrated heinous crimes. These are some of the most powerful people — potentially — but we don’t know because they still won’t release the names. Yet they unredacted the names and images of survivors. None of this would have been a problem if they had done their job in the first place. I do want to remind people that the Epstein Transparency Act is one of the things that compels them to release the files. Also, our subpoena from back in August compels them to release the full, complete, unredacted files — except for the names or identifying information of survivors, which should be coming to our committee. There is no reason why they haven’t yet released the final 3 million or so documents. They’re saying the Epstein Transparency Act is the reason why, but our subpoena does not contain that loophole. So we still expect the rest of the files. We expect that the executive branch will not trample on the legislative branch’s ability to do our job. And I just think it’s funny that Pam Bondi had so much energy today in that hearing, all while she is protecting pedophiles.