{"id":338437,"date":"2026-02-13T18:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T23:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/key-house-democrats-demand-bondi-cease-tracking-epstein-files-search-history"},"modified":"2026-02-13T18:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T23:17:14","slug":"key-house-democrats-demand-bondi-cease-tracking-epstein-files-search-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/key-house-democrats-demand-bondi-cease-tracking-epstein-files-search-history","title":{"rendered":"Key Home Democrats demand Bondi stop monitoring Epstein information search historical past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">A trio of House Democrats on Friday demanded the Department of Justice &#8220;immediately cease&#8221; tracking lawmakers&#8217; review of the unredacted files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Reps. Jamie Raskin, Pramila Jayapal and Robert Garcia sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi urging the Justice Department to &#8220;develop a new protocol&#8221; that would allow members to &#8220;meaningfully&#8221; review the &#8220;fully unredacted documents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Jayapal, who sits on the House Judiciary Committee, has <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/Politics\/democratic-rep-pramila-jayapal-accuses-doj-spying-search\/story?id=130085095\" target=\"_blank\" dir=\"ltr\">accused Bondi of &#8220;spying&#8221;<\/a> on her search history when the congresswoman visited the DOJ earlier this week to view unredacted files on Epstein.<\/p>\n<div class=\"oLzSq QrHMO fnRUo pvsTF EhJPu vPlOC zNYgW OsTsW RMeqy daRVX ISNQ sKyCY eRftA acPPc MENS nFwaT MCnQE mEeeY SmBjI xegrY rPLsU iulOd NIuqO zzscu lzDCc aHUBM IEgzD OjMNy eQqcx SVqKB GQmdz jaoD VWDdR ONJdw vrZxD OnRTz gbbfF roDbV GPGwb oMlSS gfNzt oJhud eXZcf zhVlX \">\n<div>\n<div class=\"InlineImage GpQCA lZur asrEW \" data-testid=\"prism-inline-image\">\n<figure class=\"kzIjN GNmeK pYrtp dSqFO \" data-testid=\"prism-figure\">\n<div class=\"GpQCA lZur gIjeL \" data-testid=\"prism-ratio-frame\">\n<div class=\"FvQLF iLTd NqeUA UzzHi iWsMV \"><picture data-testid=\"prism-picture\"><source media=\"(max-width: 414px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.abcnewsfe.com\/a\/9edda4cc-fe69-40cd-8611-b6f71f3b3b42\/pam-bondi-7-gty-gmh-260211_1770824211041_hpMain.jpg?w=375, https:\/\/i.abcnewsfe.com\/a\/9edda4cc-fe69-40cd-8611-b6f71f3b3b42\/pam-bondi-7-gty-gmh-260211_1770824211041_hpMain.jpg?w=750 2x\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 415px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.abcnewsfe.com\/a\/9edda4cc-fe69-40cd-8611-b6f71f3b3b42\/pam-bondi-7-gty-gmh-260211_1770824211041_hpMain.jpg?w=750, https:\/\/i.abcnewsfe.com\/a\/9edda4cc-fe69-40cd-8611-b6f71f3b3b42\/pam-bondi-7-gty-gmh-260211_1770824211041_hpMain.jpg?w=1500 2x\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"brand new protocol\" alt=\"brand new protocol\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR SjwtZ hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.abcnewsfe.com\/a\/9edda4cc-fe69-40cd-8611-b6f71f3b3b42\/pam-bondi-7-gty-gmh-260211_1770824211041_hpMain.jpg\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption>\n<div class=\"nMMea bNYiy Mjgpa dGwha DDmxa jgKNG RGHCC aBIU PriDW lZur \" data-testid=\"prism-caption\">\n<p><span class=\"hsDdd OOSI GpQCA lZur VlFaz \" data-testid=\"prism-truncate\"><span><span class=\"gtOSm FbbUW tUtYa vOCwz EQwFq yCufu eEak Qmvg nyTIa SRXVc vzLa jgBfc WXDas CiUCW kqbG zrdEG txGfn ygKVe BbezD UOtxr CVfpq xijV soGRS XgdC sEIlf daWqJ \">Attorney General Pam Bondi takes her seat before testifying before a House Judiciary Committee hearing on &#8220;Oversight of the Department of Justice&#8221; on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 11, 2026.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"gtOSm FbbUW tUtYa vOCwz EQwFq yCufu eEak Qmvg nyTIa SRXVc vzLa jgBfc WXDas CiUCW kqbG zrdEG txGfn ygKVe BbezD UOtxr CVfpq xijV soGRS XgdC sEIlf daWqJ YNujN JGtjI aZFDu rkKLh \">Roberto Schmidt\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">At a House <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/Politics\/bondi-faces-lawmaker-grilling-epstein-files-targeting-trump\/story?id=130037804\" target=\"_blank\" dir=\"ltr\">Judiciary Committee hearing<\/a> on Wednesday, Bondi appeared to have printouts &#8212; seen in photographs &#8212; titled &#8220;Jayapal Pramila Search History.&#8221; They included a diagram of several documents from the DOJ&#8217;s files that Jayapal searched.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;Over a dozen Democratic Members of our Committees, as well as Representative Thomas Massie, have viewed these files and presumably also been spied on by DOJ. Your conduct is so outrageous that even the Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has condemned this practice,&#8221; the letter states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;The surveillance of Representative Jayapal&#8217;s searches, and those of dozens of others, is just the latest effort by DOJ to interfere with Congress&#8217;s oversight of the Epstein cover-up,&#8221; the letter added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The lawmakers request that a meeting be set up by Friday, Feb. 20, to discuss the surveillance of their searches in hopes of creating a new process for members to review the Epstein files.<\/p>\n<div class=\"oLzSq QrHMO fnRUo pvsTF EhJPu vPlOC zNYgW OsTsW RMeqy daRVX ISNQ sKyCY eRftA acPPc MENS nFwaT MCnQE mEeeY SmBjI xegrY rPLsU iulOd NIuqO zzscu lzDCc aHUBM IEgzD OjMNy eQqcx SVqKB GQmdz jaoD VWDdR ONJdw vrZxD OnRTz gbbfF roDbV GPGwb oMlSS gfNzt oJhud eXZcf zhVlX \">\n<div>\n<div class=\"InlineImage GpQCA lZur asrEW \" data-testid=\"prism-inline-image\">\n<figure class=\"kzIjN GNmeK pYrtp dSqFO \" data-testid=\"prism-figure\">\n<div class=\"GpQCA lZur \" style=\"padding-bottom:60.339506172839506%\" data-testid=\"prism-ratio-frame\">\n<div class=\"FvQLF iLTd NqeUA UzzHi iWsMV \"><picture data-testid=\"prism-picture\"><source media=\"(max-width: 414px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.abcnewsfe.com\/a\/18a0c864-ee7d-4c8f-8941-eb67d96c8af9\/Jayapal-gty-gmh-260211_1770826758940_hpMain.jpg?w=375, https:\/\/i.abcnewsfe.com\/a\/18a0c864-ee7d-4c8f-8941-eb67d96c8af9\/Jayapal-gty-gmh-260211_1770826758940_hpMain.jpg?w=750 2x\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 415px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.abcnewsfe.com\/a\/18a0c864-ee7d-4c8f-8941-eb67d96c8af9\/Jayapal-gty-gmh-260211_1770826758940_hpMain.jpg?w=750, https:\/\/i.abcnewsfe.com\/a\/18a0c864-ee7d-4c8f-8941-eb67d96c8af9\/Jayapal-gty-gmh-260211_1770826758940_hpMain.jpg?w=1500 2x\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Congress\" alt=\"Congress\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR SjwtZ hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.abcnewsfe.com\/a\/18a0c864-ee7d-4c8f-8941-eb67d96c8af9\/Jayapal-gty-gmh-260211_1770826758940_hpMain.jpg\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption>\n<div class=\"nMMea bNYiy Mjgpa dGwha DDmxa jgKNG RGHCC aBIU PriDW lZur \" data-testid=\"prism-caption\">\n<p><span class=\"hsDdd OOSI GpQCA lZur VlFaz \" data-testid=\"prism-truncate\"><span><span class=\"gtOSm FbbUW tUtYa vOCwz EQwFq yCufu eEak Qmvg nyTIa SRXVc vzLa jgBfc WXDas CiUCW kqbG zrdEG txGfn ygKVe BbezD UOtxr CVfpq xijV soGRS XgdC sEIlf daWqJ \">Rep. Pramila Jayapal sits in front of a poster of an email from the Epstein files as she questions Attorney General Pam Bondi during a House Judiciary Committee hearing, February 11, 2026 in Washington.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"gtOSm FbbUW tUtYa vOCwz EQwFq yCufu eEak Qmvg nyTIa SRXVc vzLa jgBfc WXDas CiUCW kqbG zrdEG txGfn ygKVe BbezD UOtxr CVfpq xijV soGRS XgdC sEIlf daWqJ YNujN JGtjI aZFDu rkKLh \">Alex Wong\/Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;We also demand that you commit, in writing, to immediately ceasing tracking Members&#8217; review of the Epstein files,&#8221; the letter states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Justice Department didn&#8217;t immediately have a comment about the letter as of Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Earlier this week, the department said in a statement, &#8220;DOJ logs all searches made on its systems to protect against the release of victim information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Justice Department did not offer any explanation for why Bondi had a printout of Jayapal&#8217;s search history during Wednesday&#8217;s hearing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/key-house-democrats-demand-bondi-cease-tracking-epstein\/story?id=130155690\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trio of House Democrats on Friday demanded the Department of Justice &#8220;immediately cease&#8221; tracking lawmakers&#8217; review of the unredacted files on convicted sex offender [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":338440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16499,1674,5303,15778,1426,5197,16183,16498,14161,11887,636],"class_list":["post-338437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-brand-new-protocol","tag-congress","tag-division-of-justice","tag-jamie-raskin","tag-justice-division","tag-pam-bondi","tag-pramila-jayapal","tag-questions-lawyer","tag-robert-garcia","tag-roberto","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338439,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338437\/revisions\/338439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}