DOJ sends letter to Congress with list of people named in Epstein files, including Trump: Report

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Source: The Hill

02/14/26 10:59 PM ET


The Justice Department (DOJ) sent a letter to Congress on Saturday outlining its justification for redactions made in the released Jeffrey Epstein files, according to Politico. The six-page letter to the leaders of the Senate and House Judiciary committees also included a list of “all government officials and politically exposed persons” named in the files for any reason. Several high-profile names were on the list, including President Trump.

The department noted that names appeared in a “wide variety of contexts,” ranging from individuals who directly emailed with Epstein or his associate Ghislaine Maxwell to those who had no interaction with either but were referenced in documents such as media reports.

The lack of clarity surrounding which individuals fit into which contexts drew criticism from Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who accused the DOJ of “purposefully muddying the waters on who was a predator and who was mentioned in an email.”

“To have Janis Joplin, who died when Epstein was 17, in the same list as Larry Nassar, who went to prison for the sexual abuse of hundreds of young women and child pornography, with no clarification of how either was mentioned in the files is absured,” Khanna, one of the co-sponsors of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, wrote on the social platform X. “Release the full files. Stop protecting predators. Redact only the survivor’s names,” he added.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5739338-justice-department-epstein-files/

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Link to LETTER (PDF viewer) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/27061014-efta-final-letter/

Link to LETTER (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/27061014/efta-final-letter.pdf

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JUST IN: DOJ sends Hill a letter purporting to fulfill requirement in Epstein Files Transparency Act for an explanation of all redactions from released files. The six-page letter is a lot less detailed than 1 would get in run-of-the-mill #FOIA case. Doc: https://documentcloud.org/documents/27061014-efta-final-letter/
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The DOJ is once again purposefully muddying the waters on who was a predator and who was mentioned in an email.

To have Janis Joplin, who died when Epstein was 17, in the same list as Larry Nassar, who went to prison for the sexual abuse of hundreds of young women and child Show more
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SCOOP: The Department of Justice has sent over a letter to Congress outlining why it made redactions to the Epstein files.

The six-page letter also includes a list of all "government officials and politically exposed persons" in the files.
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8:16 PM · Feb 14, 2026

[Botany]

1. That list is yet one more crime by the DoJ and Bondi in trying to obscure what really happened.

Gloria Allred and Fidel Castro were not involved in Epstein, Trump, and Putin’s child sex trafficking ring.

“The DOJ is once again purposefully muddying the waters on who was a predator and who was mentioned in an email.” Ro Khanna.

[Haggard Celine]

2. Mike Huckabee

Maybe he and Jim Bob went down to the island.

[FakeNoose]

11. Along with Queen Elizabeth II and Chelsea Clinton

Not hardly......

[brer cat]

3. I don't think this mudding of the wter helps DOJ at all.

Evej members of the cult can see through this. Too bad they fired the competent people who could have helped them respond in a less absurd manner.

[calimary]

8. Probably fired those competent people because they simply weren't interested in responding.

Btw, MANY thanks for the hearts! It means a lot!

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Appears 2 pages of names are missing.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. The Xitter post didn't include the images of the last 2 pages but they are included in the PDF linked in the comments

(didn't want to go through trying to convert the PDF to an image)

[Botany]

7. But "the list" included Cher and Kurt Cobain.

What a joke including the names of people that were found on emails instead of a complete
list of all those involved in the Putin-Epstein-Musk international child sex trafficking/black mail/
extortion/rape/kidnapping/money laundering/murder/kompromat/organized crime ring.

[LymphocyteLover]

5. What a bloody sick joke, but totally fitting for this sick criminal administration

[Roy Rolling]

9. Saturday?

Really? Congress is adjourned, it’s a 3-day holiday weekend, so the DOJ publishes something so nobody will see it?

I don’t care. Defund the whole government if it takes to eliminate rogue agencies and Republican political appointees to government departments.

Defund the DHS first. Don’t stop there. The beast is the GOP political class —-starve it.

[murielm99]

10. I remember Nixon's news conference in 1974,

where he sat in his office in front of a stack of notebooks. They contained an edited version of the tapes made in the oval office. He told us he was not a crook.

We were all dumbfounded. We all laughed incredulously.