更新于 2026 年 2 月 12 日，美国东部时间下午 3:31 | 发布于 2026 年 2 月 12 日，美国东部时间下午 3:16 | 作者：霍姆斯·莱布兰德、安妮·格雷尔、马努·拉朱
司法部长帕姆·邦迪获取了民主党众议员普拉米拉·贾亚帕尔对未删节版杰弗里·爱泼斯坦相关文件的搜索记录，这一行为甚至连唐纳德·特朗普在国会最有力的盟友都表示不满。
周四，众议院议长迈克·约翰逊表示，司法部追踪议员的搜索记录是不合适的，这是这位通常与政府立场一致的共和党人罕见的批评。
“我认为议员们显然有权以自己的节奏和 discretion（自行决定）查阅这些文件，我认为任何人都不应该追踪这些信息，”约翰逊告诉美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）。“我会向司法部所有相关人员重申这一点。”
约翰逊发表上述评论之前，周三国会听证会上邦迪笔记的照片曝光，显示司法部正在追踪议员们在未删节版杰弗里·爱泼斯坦文件中查阅的文件，这引发了国会山一些人的警惕。
美国有线电视新闻网首先报道了这一明显的监控行为，报道称照片拍摄到了邦迪在作证时的笔记，其中包括贾亚帕尔的文件“搜索历史”，以及这位国会女议员查阅的文件清单。
贾亚帕尔告诉美国有线电视新闻网，直到周三美国有线电视新闻网联系她对此事置评时，她才知道司法部对她的搜索进行了监控。
“我认为每个人都应该对此感到担忧。这违反了我们的权力分立原则，”贾亚帕尔说。“我们应该能够查阅任何我们想要的文件，而不必担心会被监控或以任何方式被利用。这显然非常恶劣。”
当约翰逊周三最初称司法部追踪议员搜索记录的指控“没有证据”时，与议长在他担任司法委员会成员时关系密切的贾亚帕尔立即打电话给他解释情况。
“我说，‘迈克，这是真实存在的。那正是我搜索的顺序和内容’，”贾亚帕尔向美国有线电视新闻网描述了她与约翰逊的对话。
本周议员们一直在安排时间前往华盛顿特区的司法部大楼，查阅未删节版文件，并随后向司法部施压，要求公开曾被视为爱泼斯坦案件同谋者的个人姓名。
议员们被禁止携带手机或工作人员进入大楼查阅文件，且只能使用四台预先设置好未删节文件的电脑。
贾亚帕尔表示，当她进入房间查看未删节的爱泼斯坦文件时，一名司法部员工将她登录到可用的四台电脑之一。
在她在房间内的整个期间，贾亚帕尔称司法部工作人员一直陪同在她身边，有一次一名员工就坐在她正后方，能够看到她的电脑屏幕。尽管议员们被允许带入自己的笔记，但贾亚帕尔说，她被指示只能在司法部提供的便签本上做记录。
司法部发言人在给美国有线电视新闻网的一份声明中表示，“司法部为国会提供了查阅爱泼斯坦文件中未删节文件的机会。作为审查的一部分，司法部会记录所有在其系统上进行的搜索，以防止泄露受害者信息。”
共和党“激进派”南希·梅斯也对监控议员搜索的行为发表了评论，她周三在社交媒体上写道：“司法部正在追踪国会议员搜索、打开和查阅的爱泼斯坦文件。”
“我今天能够浏览该系统，我不会透露具体方法和性质，但可以确认司法部正在‘标记’所有国会议员搜索、打开和查阅的文件，”她说。
此后，贾亚帕尔表示，司法部需要为议员们查阅未删节文件创建一个“完全不同的流程”，以避免他们的搜索历史被保存或用于针对他们。
这位女议员表示，她想知道司法部为何以这种方式设置，使得议员的搜索历史能够被查看。
肯塔基州共和党众议员托马斯·梅西表示，对追踪议员搜索历史最“慈善”的解释是，司法部希望通过帮助议员找到最常被查阅的文件来“改进服务”。但梅西说，这种善意的解读被邦迪在听证会上随身携带的贾亚帕尔搜索词清单削弱了，“她显然是在准备反对研究”，并带来了“带有侮辱性词汇的闪卡”试图“羞辱”议员们。
“我觉得他们试图根据我们的搜索历史找出攻击线索，这有点令人毛骨悚然，”梅西说。
梅西还批评司法部在文件中进行了某些议员本应能看到未删节版本的删减。他辩称，这使得国会无法获取司法部发布的数百万页文件中所有联邦调查局（FBI）文件。
这项由国会通过、梅西与民主党众议员罗·科哈尼共同发起的法律，限制了司法部可以进行的删减，包括受害者的个人信息和可能危害正在进行的刑事调查的材料。但正如美国有线电视新闻网之前报道的那样，一些议员描述的删减内容与法律规定不符。
司法部还需在 2 月 15 日前向国会提供一份特权日志，解释为何进行了某些删减。
这种监控让人联想到中央情报局（CIA）试图监视参议院情报委员会工作人员的行为，这些工作人员当时正在监督中央情报局在 9/11 袭击后进行的审讯和酷刑手段。
2014 年 3 月，当时担任情报委员会主席的参议员黛安·范斯坦表示，她认为中央情报局可能非法监控了弗吉尼亚州北部一个独立计算机网络，该网络被工作人员用于访问中央情报局机密材料。
尽管监察长提出了调查要求，司法部最终还是拒绝调查此事。
House speaker condemns Trump Justice Department monitoring of lawmakers’ Epstein document review
Updated Feb 12, 2026, 3:31 PM ET | Published Feb 12, 2026, 3:16 PM ET | By Holmes Lybrand, Annie Grayer, Manu Raju
Attorney General Pam Bondi obtained Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s search history of the unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files and even President Donald Trump’s most powerful ally in Congress has a problem with it.
House Speaker Mike Johnson on Thursday said the Justice Department’s tracking of lawmakers’ search history was inappropriate, a rare rebuke from the Republican who is usually in lockstep with the administration.
“I think members should obviously have the right to peruse those at their own speed and with their own discretion and I don’t think it’s appropriate for anybody to be tracking that,” Johnson told CNN. “I will echo that to anybody involved in the DOJ.”
Johnson’s comments come after photographs of Bondi’s notes during a Wednesday congressional hearing revealed the Justice Department is tracking which documents lawmakers are reviewing in the unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files, prompting some on Capitol Hill to sound the alarm.
CNN first reported the apparent surveillance from a photo taken of Bondi’s notes during her testimony, which included Jayapal’s “search history” of the documents, with a list of which files the congresswoman had searched.
Jayapal told CNN she did not know the Justice Department had surveilled her search until CNN contacted her Wednesday for comment on the matter.
“I think everyone should be concerned about this. It’s a violation of our separation of powers,” Jayapal said. “We should be able to look at any document we want and not feel like it’s going to be surveilled or used against us in any way. And this was just so obviously egregious.”
When Johnson initially called the allegation of DOJ tracking lawmakers’ search history “unsubstantiated” on Wednesday, Jayapal, who is close with the speaker from his days serving on the Judiciary panel, immediately called him to explain what happened.
“I said, ‘Mike, it’s real. That’s my search history exactly in the order that I searched it,’” Jayapal told CNN of her conversation with Johnson.
Lawmakers have been scheduling times this week to go into a Justice Department building in Washington, DC, to review unredacted versions of the files and have since pressured the Justice Department to unredact the names of individuals who were at one time considered as co-conspirators in Epstein’s crimes.
Lawmakers have not been allowed to bring phones or members of their staff into the building to review the documents and are limited to four computers set up with the unredacted files.
When Jayapal went into the room to view the unredacted Epstein files, a Justice Department employee logged her into one of the four computers available for lawmakers, the lawmaker said.
During the duration of her time in the room, Jayapal said DOJ staffers remained with her, and at one point one of the employees sat directly behind her, able to view her computer screen. Even though lawmakers were allowed to bring in notes with them, Jayapal said she was instructed to only take notes on the pads of paper the Justice Department provided her.
A department spokesperson said in a statement to CNN that “DOJ has extended Congress the opportunity to review unredacted documents in the Epstein files. As a part of that review, DOJ logs all searches made on its systems to protect against the release of victim information.”
Republican firebrand Nancy Mace has also spoken out about the monitoring of lawmakers’ searches, writing on social media Wednesday that “DOJ is tracking the Epstein documents Members of Congress search for, open, and review.”
“I was able to navigate the system today and I won’t disclose how or the nature of how; but confirmed the DOJ is TAGGING ALL DOCUMENTS Members of Congress search, open and review,” she said.
In the aftermath, Jayapal said the Justice Department needs to create a “completely different process” for lawmakers to review the unredacted files without fear of their search history being saved or used against them.
The congresswoman said wants to know why the DOJ set it up in such a way that a lawmaker’s search history could be reviewed in the first place.
Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky said the most “charitable” explanation for tracking members’ search history was that DOJ wanted to “improve their service” by helping members find the most frequently sought-after documents. But Massie said that charitable view is undercut by Bondi carrying with her a list of Jaypal’s search terms at the hearing “where she clearly was prepared with oppo resesarch” and brought “flash cards with insults” to try to “embrass” the members.
“I think it’s kind of creepy that they were hoping to divine some line of attack based on our search histories,” Massie said.
Massie has also criticized the DOJ for having certain redactions in files that lawmakers were supposed to be able to view in an unredacted form. That makes it impossible, he argued, for Congress to access all FBI files in the millions of pages released by the Justice Department.
The law, passed by Congress and co-authored by Massie and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna, limited which redactions DOJ could make, including personal information of victims and materials that would jeopardize an active criminal investigation. But as CNN previously reported, some redactions described by the lawmakers did not line up with the law.
The Justice Department is also required to give Congress a privileged log explaining why certain redactions were made by February 15.
The surveillance is reminiscent of the CIA’s efforts to spy on Senate intelligence committee staffers who were conducting oversight into the CIA’s interrogation and torture tactics that occurred in the wake of the 9/11 attack.
In March of 2014, Senator Dianne Feinstein, who chaired the intelligence committee, said she believed the CIA could have acted illegally in monitoring a standalone computer network in northern Virginia used by staffers to access classified CIA material.
The Justice Department ultimately declined to investigate the matter despite a referral from the Inspector General.
