2026-05-29T14:03:54.261Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
前司法部长帕姆·邦迪周五在国会山露面期间，为司法部处理杰弗里·爱泼斯坦档案的方式进行辩护。
爱泼斯坦的幸存者和民主党人士批评此次闭门采访形式，并表示他们将就暴露幸存者身份的审核删改失误寻求答案。
司法部尚未公布约250页有关爱泼斯坦的调查档案，而已公开的文件也经过了大量删改。
前司法部长帕姆·邦迪周五上午抵达国会山，接受共和党主导的众议院监督委员会久候已久的采访，她在抵达时就司法部发布杰弗里·爱泼斯坦相关档案的处理方式进行了强有力的辩护。
“据我所知，司法部已提供了《爱泼斯坦档案透明度法案》要求的所有材料，”邦迪在其与该委员会闭门采访前发布的一份声明中说道。邦迪辩称，司法部在近几个月发布案件文件的过程中“展现了前所未有的透明度承诺”。
在被解雇约两个月后，且在公开自己癌症诊断结果数天后，邦迪将向国会议员们谈及她任职期间司法部对爱泼斯坦调查的处理情况——这在唐纳德·特朗普的白宫任期内是一个重大争议点。
在她准备向议员发表的讲话中，有一个关键细节：邦迪在预先准备的声明中与部分档案发布流程划清界限，并指出她将部分相关工作“委托”给了现任代理司法部长托德·布兰奇。
“作为肩负广泛职责的大型部门负责人，我并未主导这项工作的方方面面，也没有亲自开展文件审核。我将该流程的监督工作委托给了副司法部长托德·布兰奇，”邦迪说道。
众议院监督委员会主席詹姆斯·科默周五上午对记者强调，他的委员会“严肃对待此次调查”，这是该委员会针对这位已故定罪性犯罪者调查的第13次采访。
“我们希望向美国民众还原真相，我们试图为生还者伸张正义，”他对记者表示。
但在与邦迪会谈之前，该委员会的民主党 counterparts（对应席位议员）众议员罗伯特·加西亚猛烈抨击共和党人，称其未要求这位前司法部长公开出镜，也未要求她在接受委员会问询前正式宣誓。
尽管邦迪的采访将被转录并公开，但加西亚表示，“这场采访本应在宣誓下进行，也本应被录像记录。”
就在邦迪露面之前，一群爱泼斯坦幸存者向记者谈及此次采访的意义，以及他们认为亟需获取更多信息的现状。
其中一位幸存者玛丽娜·拉塞达表示，她认为邦迪掌握着公众并不知晓的调查细节。“我们都希望今天帕姆·邦迪能尽可能坦诚，有望为相关事件追责，”她说道。
司法部有关这位已故定罪性犯罪者的调查档案中，约250页文件尚未公开，而已公布的350万页文件中，多数都经过了大量删改，这引发了外界对司法部向公众隐瞒了哪些内容的质疑。
在担任美国最高执法官员期间，邦迪因在爱泼斯坦调查中缺乏透明度而受到两党批评。
她还因审核删改失误受到审查，这类失误在某些情况下暴露了幸存者的私人个人信息。
另一位周五向记者发言的幸存者莉兹·斯坦表示，她希望邦迪为这些删改失误做出解释，并公开是否有人因泄露幸存者姓名“同时保护了施害者姓名”而被追责。
“我当然希望，作为一名职业律师和美国前司法部部长，她能在良知上进行某种道德反思，铭记自己为何能担任这一职位，以及她在该职位上对美国民众应尽的责任，而非仅仅服务于某一届政府，”斯坦说道。
今年3月，该监督委员会联合多名共和党议员与民主党人投票决定传唤邦迪。为了提升议员们对调查处理方式的信心，她随后自愿与议员们进行了一次非正式会面——但民主党人退出了那次会面，因为她不愿承诺宣誓作证。
邦迪原本定于4月出席宣誓作证，但她在预定会面之前被解除了司法部长职务——这促使司法部反对原定的出庭安排。愤怒的民主党人威胁要以藐视国会罪起诉她。如今她自愿前往委员会接受问询。
从一开始，邦迪就身处特朗普政府爱泼斯坦相关政治危机的中心。
就职后不久，邦迪似乎站在了众多要求政府公开爱泼斯坦档案处理细节的“让美国再次伟大”（MAGA）阵营支持者一边。她曾在福克斯新闻上发表著名言论，称爱泼斯坦长期流传的客户名单“此刻就放在我的办公桌上”。
但她后来收回了这些言论，司法部也未公布爱泼斯坦相关案件的新细节，这激怒了MAGA阵营的基础支持者。这种透明度缺失加剧了国会内部的共和党反叛情绪，由众议员托马斯·马西和前众议员玛乔丽·泰勒·格林领导的反叛势力最终迫使特朗普和共和党领导人加快发布一系列与爱泼斯坦相关的庞大档案。
尽管如此，部分共和党人和众多民主党人仍坚称，司法部在发布档案的过程中拖延拖沓，或是完全隐瞒了其他细节。
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Bondi defends DOJ’s handling of Epstein files in long-sought interview on Capitol Hill
2026-05-29T14:03:54.261Z / CNN
Former Attorney General Pam Bondi is defending the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files as she appears on Capitol Hill Friday.
Epstein survivors and Democrats have criticized the closed-door format and said they will seek answers about redaction errors that exposed survivor identities.
The Justice Department has not released roughly 2.5 million pages of investigative files on Epstein, and documents that have been published are heavily redacted.
Former Attorney General Pam Bondi offered a robust defense of the Justice Department’s handling of the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files as she arrived on Capitol Hill Friday morning for a long-sought interview with the GOP-led House Oversight Committee.
“To the best of my knowledge, the Department produced everything required under the Epstein Files Transparency Act,” Bondi said in a statement released just ahead of her closed-door interview with the panel. Bondi argued DOJ “demonstrated an unprecedented commitment to transparency” in its release of the case documents in recent months.
Roughly two months after her firing and just days after making public her cancer diagnosis, Bondi is speaking to Hill lawmakers about the department’s handling of the Epstein probe under her watch — a major source of contention inside Donald Trump’s White House during her tenure.
In one key glimpse of her comments to lawmakers, Bondi used her prepared statement to distance herself from at least some of the document release process and noted that she “delegated” some of that work to now-acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.
“As the head of a large Department with broad responsibilities, I did not lead every aspect of this effort or conduct that document review myself. I delegated oversight over this process to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche,” Bondi said.
Rep. James Comer, the chair of the House Oversight Committee, stressed to reporters Friday morning that his committee is “taking this investigation seriously” as it holds the 13th interview in its probe into the late convicted sex offender.
“We want to get the truth to the American people, we wanted to try to provide justice for the survivors,” he told reporters.
But ahead of the sitdown with Bondi, Comer’s Democratic counterpart on the panel, Rep. Robert Garcia, lashed out at Republicans for not requiring the former attorney general to speak on camera or to take a formal oath before speaking to the panel.
While Bondi’s interview will be transcribed and made public, Garcia said it “should have been under oath, and it should be videotaped.”
Just ahead of Bondi’s appearance, a group of Epstein survivors spoke to reporters about the significance of her interview — and what they saw as a clear need for more information.
Marina Lacerda, one of those survivors, said she believes Bondi knows details about the investigation that the public doesn’t. “We all hope that today Pam Bondi will be as clear as possible and hopefully bring accountability to the table,” she said.
Some 2.5 million documents in the Justice Department’s investigative files related to the late convicted sex offender have not been publicly released and many of the 3.5 million pages that have been published are heavily redacted, prompting questions about what’s being kept from the public.
During her time as the top US law enforcement official, Bondi faced criticism from both parties over her lack of transparency on the Epstein investigation.
She’s also faced scrutiny over redaction errors that, in some cases, exposed private personal information about the survivors in the documents.
Another survivor who spoke to reporters Friday, Liz Stein, said she wants Bondi to answer for those redaction errors — and to disclose if anyone has been held accountable for revealing survivor names “while protecting the names of perpetrators.”
“I would certainly hope that as a career attorney and as the former head of the Department of Justice for the United States of America that she will have some kind of moral reckoning with her conscience and remember why she was put in the job she was in, and what her responsibilities in that job are to the American people and not necessarily any particular administration,” Stein said.
In March, the oversight panel, with several GOP lawmakers joining Democrats, voted to subpoena Bondi. Looking to boost members’ confidence in how the investigation was being handled, she then voluntarily appeared for an informal meeting with lawmakers — but Democrats walked out of that meeting because she would not commit to testifying under oath.
Bondi was then set to appear for a sworn deposition in April, but she was fired from her role as attorney general before the scheduled sit-down – prompting the department to argue against her scheduled appearance. Furious Democrats threatened to hold her in contempt of Congress. She is now appearing voluntarily before the committee.
Bondi has been at the center of the Trump administration’s political crisis on Epstein from the start.
Shortly after taking office, Bondi appeared to side with the many MAGA loyalists pursuing full transparency of the government’s handling of the Epstein files. She famously told Fox News that Epstein’s long-rumored client list was “sitting on my desk right now.”
But she later walked back her remarks and her department offered no new details on Epstein, infuriating the MAGA base. That lack of transparency helped fuel a GOP revolt inside Congress, led by Rep. Thomas Massie and former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, which ultimately forced Trump and Republican leaders to fast-track DOJ’s release of a sprawling web of Epstein files.
Still, some Republicans and many Democrats have insisted the DOJ has slow-walked the release — or withheld other details altogether.
CNN’s Kaanita Iyer, Casey Gannon, Dugald McConnell and Annie Grayer contributed to this report.
