Deputy AG Blanche defends Epstein files release as survivors slam administration over redaction failures [View all]
Source: ABC News
February 1, 2026, 11:14 AM
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday defended the Justice Department's release of more than 3 million pages from the department's files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as survivors and lawmakers criticize the disclosure as insufficient and filled with redaction errors.
"We took great pains, as I explained on Friday, to make sure that we protected victims," Blanche told ABC News' "This Week" anchor George Stephanopoulos. "Every time we hear from a victim or their lawyer that they believe that their name was not properly redacted, we immediately rectify that."
Blanche said that redaction errors only impact "about .001% of all the materials."
"We knew this -- I said this on Friday -- that that, of course, the nature of this type of review was so -- the volume of materials that were reviewed, that there would be times when this happened. And so we're, we're working hard to make sure that we fix that, and I expect that that will continue," he said.
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With a dramatic Hollywood flourish, Bondi insisted that she had the files "on her desk", and almost a year later, it took a law to force action and even then, they were given a month to move it and ignored that, blowing past the deadline.
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