Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is set to appear in front of a House appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday, and he will undoubtedly face questions related to the Justice Department’s handling of its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif. — who, along with Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., co-sponsored the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which mandated the public release of all DOJ records related to the investigation — joined MS NOW’s “The Weekend” on Sunday to discuss what he views as the department’s failure to comply with the legislation. He also spoke of his proposal for a new “Epstein class” subcommittee to investigate associates of the late financier and convicted sex offender.
Khanna noted that the Justice Department was still withholding millions of documents, months after the deadline for their release. “Massie and I drafted the law, they’re in violation of the law, and the people they’re hurting are the survivors,” he said.
The California Democrat also questioned why the Justice Department had not launched investigations into any of the associates of Epstein who have been named in the documents. “There has not been a single investigation or prosecution since the release of these millions of files,” he said.
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Allison Detzel is an editor/producer for MS NOW. She was previously a segment producer for “AYMAN” and “The Mehdi Hasan Show.”
