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华盛顿——美国司法部内部监察长周四表示，将对司法部执行要求披露与性犯罪者杰弗里·爱泼斯坦相关文件的法律的情况进行审计。此前数月，两党均对该机构处理文件披露的方式提出批评。
美国司法部监察长办公室在一份声明中表示，将“评估司法部按照《爱泼斯坦文件透明度法案》要求，识别、编辑和公开其掌握的相关记录的流程”。该法案于去年11月由特朗普总统签署成为法律。法案要求司法部在生效后30天内，公开所有与爱泼斯坦及其同谋吉斯莱恩·麦克斯韦相关的文件，但司法部未能遵守这一最后期限。
监察长办公室表示，此次调查将审查司法部“识别、收集和提交相关材料”的流程。同时还将审查司法部如何确定哪些材料将根据法律进行编辑或扣留，以及“处理文件公开后公众担忧的流程”。
声明表示，审查完成后，该办公室将发布包含审计结果的公开报告。
法案签署后的30天内，司法部发布了首批文件，但此次披露并未涵盖该法规覆盖的全部范围。几天后，司法部发布了超过1.1万份文件的大量批次，总计近3万页照片、法庭记录、电子邮件、新闻剪报、视频和其他材料。
1月30日，时任司法部副部长托德·布兰奇表示，司法部正在发布超过300万页与爱泼斯坦和麦克斯韦调查相关的记录，这是其最终披露内容。
布兰奇表示，特朗普政府为响应与爱泼斯坦相关的法案收集了超过600万页文件，但因各种原因扣留了其中一部分，包括其中包含幸存者的个人信息，或可能危及正在进行的联邦调查。
“我可以保证，我们遵守了该法规，遵守了该法案，我们没有保护特朗普总统。我们没有保护或不保护任何人，”布兰奇在宣布最终披露的新闻发布会上说道，“人们对信息的渴望或渴求，我认为这些文件的审查无法满足。对此我无能为力。”
在帕姆·邦迪离职后，布兰奇随后被提拔为代理司法部长。在被提拔到新岗位后接受福克斯新闻采访时，布兰奇表示，爱泼斯坦文件“不应再成为司法部未来工作的一部分”。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的一项分析发现，司法部在最初发布文件后删除了数万份文件，导致公开文件数量降至270万页。截至2月底，审查发现司法部已下架超过4.7万份文件，总计约6.55万页。这些文件的链接目前在司法部网站上显示“页面未找到”错误。
分批发布以及反复发布和撤回文件的做法，使得幸存者和国会议员都呼吁对司法部处理文件的方式进行独立审查。
推动通过《爱泼斯坦文件透明度法案》的两名议员，民主党众议员罗·卡纳和共和党众议员托马斯·马西，也呼吁进行独立审查。
在2025年12月写给司法部监察长的一封信中，爱泼斯坦的幸存者和国会民主党议员团体要求监察长办公室独立审查这些文件，以确定是否有任何记录被“篡改”。
周二，特朗普总统提名资深政府律师唐·伯蒂亚姆担任司法部下一任监察长。伯蒂亚姆自去年年底以来一直担任司法部代理监察长。
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Justice Department watchdog launches probe into compliance with Epstein files law
2026-04-23T13:35:00-0400 / CBS News
Washington— The Justice Department’s internal watchdog said Thursday that it will audit the department’s compliance with the law that required the release of files related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, following months of bipartisan criticism over how the agency handled the disclosure.
The Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General said in a statement that it will “evaluate the DOJ’s processes for identifying, redacting, and releasing records in its possession as required by the” Epstein Files Transparency Act, which President Trump signed into law last November. The bill required the Justice Department to release all files related to Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell within 30 days of becoming law, a deadline the department failed to meet.
The watchdog office said the probe will review the processes behind the department’s “identification, collection, and production of responsive material.” It will also examine how the department determined what material would be redacted or withheld under the law, as well as the “processes for addressing post-release publication concerns.”
The statement said that the office will issue a public report with the audit’s results once the review is complete.
The Justice Department published an initial batch of files within 30 days of the bill being signed, but that release did not encompass the full scope of material covered by the statute. Days later, the department released a massive tranche of more than 11,000 files, totaling nearly 30,000 pages of photos, court records, emails, news clippings, videos and other material.
On Jan. 30, then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said that the Justice Department was releasing more than 3 million pages of records related to its investigations into Epstein and Maxwell, its final disclosure.
Blanche said the Trump administration collected more than 6 million pages in response to the Epstein-related law but withheld a portion of them for various reasons, including because they contain survivors’ personal information or would jeopardize an active federal investigation.
“I can assure that we complied with the statute, we complied with the act and we did not protect President Trump. We didn’t protect or not protect anybody,” Blanche said at a news conference announcing the final release. “There’s a hunger or a thirst for information that I do not think will be satisfied by the review of these documents. There’s nothing I can do about that.”
Blanche has since been elevated to acting attorney general after the departure of Pam Bondi. In an interview with Fox News after he was elevated to his new role, Blanche said that the Epstein files “should not be a part of anything going forward” at the Justice Department.
A CBS News analysis found that the Justice Department removed tens of thousands of files after they were initially published, leaving the number of public documents at 2.7 million pages. As of late February, the review found that the Justice Department has taken down more than 47,000 files comprising about 65,500 pages. Links to those files now return a “page not found” error on the department’s website.
The rolling release and repeated publishing and unpublishing of documents left survivors and members of Congress alike calling for an independent review of the department’s handling of the files.
The two lawmakers who led the push to pass the Epstein Files Transparency Act, Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna and Republican Rep. Thomas Massie, have also pushed for an independent review.
In a December 2025 letter to the Justice Department’s inspector general, Epstein survivors and a group of Democrats in Congress asked the watchdog office to independently review the files to determine whether any of the records were “tampered” with.
On Tuesday, President Trump nominated a career government attorney, Don Berthiaume, to serve as the Justice Department’s next inspector general. Berthiaume had been serving as the department’s acting watchdog since late last year.
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