The Justice Department opened a review after news organizations and members of Congress found that some materials linked to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation were not publicly available. Among the potentially withheld items are summaries of FBI interviews with a woman who made an allegation involving a prominent public figure; those interview summaries have been reported as absent from the files released online.
The missing materials took on renewed significance as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton sat for closed-door depositions before the House Oversight Committee as part of its probe. Republican and Democratic members of the committee have pressed the department for explanations about what was released, what was redacted and whether any documents were improperly withheld from the public record.
The scope of any deliberate withholding, and whether the gaps reflect clerical errors, redaction decisions, or other choices, is still being determined. The department’s review is intended to clarify those questions and inform what — if any — further action Congress or prosecutors will take.
