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梅利莎·奎因、雅各布·罗森
雅各布·罗森 司法部记者
杰克·罗森负责报道美国司法部。此前他曾作为竞选数字记者报道特朗普总统2024年竞选活动，还曾担任《玛格丽特·布伦南与本周面见》节目的助理制片人。
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更新时间：2026年4月8日 / 美国东部时间上午11:28 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
华盛顿——众议院监督与政府改革委员会周三表示，前司法部长帕姆·邦迪下周不会出席该委员会，就司法部对已定罪性犯罪者杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的调查处理情况接受质询。
“司法部已经表示，帕姆·邦迪不会在4月14日出席作证，因为她已不再担任司法部长，而传票是以司法部长的身份发出的，”监督委员会的一名发言人表示。“委员会将联系帕姆·邦迪的私人律师，讨论安排她作证的后续步骤。”
监督委员会主席詹姆斯·科默上月发出的传票要求邦迪于本周二出席闭门作证。3月4日，监督委员会全体委员投票批准传唤邦迪，当时邦迪仍在担任司法部长。五名共和党议员与全体民主党议员投下了赞成票。
委员会最高民主党议员、来自加利福尼亚州的众议员罗伯特·加西亚表示，委员会发出的传票具有约束力，并要求邦迪出庭。
“如今帕姆·邦迪被解职，就试图逃避她在监督委员会作证的法律义务，披露爱泼斯坦相关文件以及白宫掩盖的真相，”他在一份声明中说道。“我们两党共同发出的传票针对的是帕姆·邦迪本人，无论她是否担任司法部长。她必须立即前来作证，如果她藐视传票，我们将在国会启动藐视国会程序。受害者们理应得到正义。”
担任司法部长期间，邦迪监督了司法部对爱泼斯坦及其长期同伙吉斯莱恩·麦克斯韦的联邦调查相关文件的审查和发布工作。麦克斯韦因性交易罪行被判处20年监禁。在国会通过《爱泼斯坦文件透明度法案》后，相关材料得以公开。
司法部最终从超过600万页文件中公开了约300万页与爱泼斯坦相关的文档。司法部高级官员表示，约有一半材料因各种原因被扣留，其中包括部分记录包含受害者的个人信息，或可能危及正在进行的联邦调查。
邦迪于上周被解除司法部长职务。
在特朗普宣布邦迪的副手托德·布兰切将担任代理司法部长后，邦迪最初表示她将留任一个月，协助布兰切完成过渡。但布兰切周二以司法部代理负责人的身份举行了新闻发布会，司法部也已将他称为代理部长，这表明他已正式接管职务。
周三早些时候，南卡罗来纳州共和党众议员南希·梅斯和加利福尼亚州民主党众议员罗·卡纳致信科默，敦促他重申邦迪出席委员会作证的义务。梅斯曾提出传唤邦迪的动议，卡纳则提出了《爱泼斯坦文件透明度法案》。
“解除帕姆·邦迪的司法部长职务，并不会削弱委员会寻求其宣誓作证的合理监督利益，也不会削弱公众对司法部扣留文件一事追究责任、获取信息的必要性，”他们在信中写道。“恰恰相反，这让她的宣誓作证变得更为重要，尤其是涉及她担任司法部长期间采取的行动、已在调查中的事项，以及她领导下做出的决策。”
卡纳和梅斯表示，关于司法部未能遵守《爱泼斯坦文件透明度法案》，以及邦迪担任司法部长期间司法部对这位名誉扫地的已故金融家及其同伙的调查处理情况，“仍存在严重疑问”。
《爱泼斯坦文件透明度法案》要求司法部在12月19日前公开与爱泼斯坦相关的材料。但司法部反而在1月底前分多批披露了这些文件。民主党人和部分共和党人严厉批评司法部在数百万页文件的删改方面存在不一致之处。在早期披露的文件中，一些有权势人士的身份被向公众隐瞒。司法部未能删改部分爱泼斯坦虐待案受害者的姓名和个人细节，引发了公愤。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的一项分析还发现，司法部下架了数万份文件，其中一些包含露骨图片或受害者信息。但其他文件——例如一份姓名已被删改的通话记录——被下架的原因尚不明确。
帕特里克·马吉尔对本篇报道亦有贡献。
Bondi won’t appear for April 14 deposition in Oversight Committee’s Epstein probe
2026-04-08T11:01:00-0400 / CBS News
By Melissa Quinn, Melissa Quinn Senior Reporter, Politics
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Updated on: April 8, 2026 / 11:28 AM EDT / CBS News
Washington — Former Attorney General Pam Bondi will not appear before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee next week to answer questions about the Justice Department’s handling of the investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the panel said Wednesday.
“The Department of Justice has stated Pam Bondi will not appear on April 14 for a deposition since she is no longer Attorney General and was subpoenaed in her capacity as Attorney General,” a spokeswoman for the Oversight Committee said. “The Committee will contact Pam Bondi’s personal counsel to discuss next steps regarding scheduling her deposition.”
The subpoena, issued by Oversight Committee chairman James Comer last month, required Bondi to appear for a closed-door deposition on Tuesday. The full Oversight panel had approved a motion on March 4 to subpoena Bondi, who was then serving as attorney general. Five Republicans voted with all Democrats in support of the move.
Rep. Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the Committee, said the subpoena issued by the committee is binding and demanded she appear.
“Now that Pam Bondi has been fired, she’s trying to get out of her legal obligation to testify before the Oversight Committee about the Epstein files and the White House cover-up,” he said in a statement. “Our bipartisan subpoena is to Pam Bondi, whether she is the Attorney General or not. She must come in to testify immediately, and if she defies the subpoena, we will begin contempt charges in the Congress. The survivors deserve justice.”
As attorney general, Bondi oversaw the Justice Department’s review and release of files related to the federal investigation into Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, his longtime associate who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex-trafficking crimes. The material was made public after Congress approved a measure, called the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
The Justice Department ultimately released roughly 3 million pages of documents related to Epstein out of more than 6 million pages. Top department officials said roughly half of the material was withheld for various reasons, including because some of the records contained survivors’ personal information or risked jeopardizing an active federal investigation.
Bondi was ousted from her post as attorney general last week.
After Mr. Trump announced Bondi’s deputy, Todd Blanche, would serve as acting attorney general, Bondi initially said she would stay on the job for a month to help him with the transition. But Blanche held a press conference on Tuesday as the acting head of the Justice Department, and the department has referred to him as such, an indication that he has officially taken over.
Earlier Wednesday, GOP Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California sent Comer a letter urging him to reaffirm Bondi’s obligation to testify before the panel. Mace offered the motion to subpoena Bondi, and Khanna introduced the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
“The removal of Pam Bondi as Attorney General does not diminish the Committee’s legitimate oversight interests in seeking her sworn testimony or the need for accountability and information about files withheld from the public by the DOJ,” they wrote in their letter. “On the contrary, it makes her sworn testimony even more important, especially with respect to actions she took as Attorney General, matters already under investigation, and decisions made under her leadership.”
Khanna and Mace said “serious questions remain” about what they said is the Justice Department’s failure to comply with the Epstein files law and its handling of the investigation into the disgraced late financier and his associates while Bondi was serving as attorney general.
The Epstein Files Transparency Act required the Justice Department to release its Epstein-related material by Dec. 19. But the department instead disclosed the documents in a series of releases through the end of January. Democrats and some Republicans lambasted the Justice Department for inconsistencies in the redactions of names and information found in the millions of pages of files. In the earlier releases of documents, the identities of some powerful people were shielded from the public. The Justice Department failed to redact some of the names and personal details of survivors of Epstein’s abuse, sparking outrage.
A CBS News analysis also found that the Justice Department took down tens of thousands of files, some of which contained explicit images or survivors’ information. But the reasons for the removal of other files, such as a call log with redacted names, are unclear.
Patrick Maguire contributed to this report.