There is already a bipartisan push to impeach Attorney General Pam Bondi over her apparent flouting of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, according to one of the bill's authors.

During a Friday interview on CNN, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) told host Kaitlan Collins that he knew something was wrong with Friday's promised release of documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein's two federal investigations when he saw the scope of the Department of Justice's (DOJ) redactions. While Khanna maintained that neither he nor the bill's chief co-sponsor, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), had any issues with redacting information to protect Epstein's surviving victims and their families, he took umbrage with the DOJ's total omission of the 119-page grand jury document that preceded Epstein's "sweetheart deal" in 2008 and the 82-page document explaining why he should be charged.

"Neither of them are in therelease," Khanna said. "And to the extent thedrafters' intent of a lawmatters, Thomas Massie and Iexplicitly drafted it to coverthose two documents. And you hadthree federal judges look at ourlaw and say, 'release everythingin terms of the grand jury.' Youhad judges saying, 'release it.'And then the Department of Justice is redacting it."

When Collins observed that the DOJ "made a pretty big show" of obtaining the 119-page grand jury document — which has been completely redacted from start to finish — Khanna said that redaction was "the red flagwhere I knew something waswrong."

"One of the things,unfortunately, we learned isthat there are 1,200 survivors, according to the DOJ itself," Khanna said. "Think about it: If there are 1200 survivors,there was more than one personcommitting this abuse. And whatI thought should not be redactedis information about politiciansor powerful people who may havebeen implicated. The wholepoint, again, if you read thelaw, is to say embarrassment orreputational harm cannot be areason for redaction. And yet itseems for everything thatthey've redacted and notproduced that they are trying toprotect people. They don't wantpeople to be held accountable.And that's exactly what thesurvivors want."

At that point, Collins asked the California Democrat if he felt Bondi should be impeached over the redactions. Khanna confirmed that both he and Massie are "drafting articles ofimpeachment and inherentcontempt," prompting Collins to say, "wow."

"We haven't decidedwhether to move it forward yet,but we're in the process ofdoing it," he said. "... Theissue for her is not, are theregoing to be 212 Democrats whowould support it. The issue forher is how many Republicans andMAGA supporters would supportit."

"So my hope — because my hopehas never been about Pam Bondigetting justice or Todd Blanche getting justice — my hope is shelooks at this, she looks at theoutrage that MAGA has, she looksat the disappointment that thesurvivors have, and she makes adecision over the next two weeksto actually start releasingthese documents," he added. "Because she maylose more Republicans in the House than she anticipates."

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