'Paranoia?' Dem reveals lengths DOJ going to 'stay ahead' of congressional Epstein probe
February 12, 2026
A Democratic lawmaker confirmed the Department of Justice is essentially peering over lawmakers' shoulders as they search through the unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files.
Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA) appeared Thursday on "CNN This Morning," where she discussed the previous day's contentious hearing with Attorney General Pam Bondi and the binder she brought with her that showed the search history for lawmakers who pored through the Justice Department's case files on the late sex offender.
"So I believe that they'resurveilling all of us," Kamlager-Dove said. "They wantto know what kinds of questionswe have. The reality is the American people are concernedabout this callous and recklessrelease of the Epstein files,which has also been incomplete."
"I'm going there today, I amsure they're going to bewatching what I'm searching," the congresswoman added. "When you log in, you go in, yougo to a computer, you have tolog in. You have to put in yourinformation as a congressperson, and there are DOJ staff there inthe room. So we know we're beingwatched, but we are trying tofind the files that the Americanpeople are saying, how come thiswas redacted? How come thiswasn't? Why are you covering upnames of pedophiles andpredators and then releasing thenames of young survivors?"
Host Audie Cornish asked what was the significance of the Trump administration's interest in their search history.
"Do you think this isindicative of theadministration's paranoiasurrounding the Epstein files?" Cornish asked. "Imean, they spent so much money,so many hours trying to get [President Donald] Trump scrubbed out of them,trying to get his friendsscrubbed out of them. Now you'regetting to see them unredacted.Do you think they're trackingyou so they can try to stayahead of like, oh, she saw aboutthis person, she saw about thatperson, to kind of you know, dealwith that."
Kamlager-Dove agreed, and she said the president's position on the investigative files about his former friend had changed dramatically since he won re-election.
"I mean, this man ran on aplatform of, you know, releasingthe entire Epstein files," she said. "Hegets into office, he doesn'twant to talk about it at all. Youknow, he's in the files, he's not in the files, he knew Epstein, he didn't know Epstein, right? All of thenumbers are inconsistent withregards to how many times he'sin the files or not."
"Isn't itinteresting that they haveallowed congresspeople to go toread and look at the files twodays before the woman wassupposed to show up at ourcommittee, because she knew wewere going to ask about the Epstein files? Kamlager-Dove added. "So I do thinkthey're trying to play catch-upwith the American people, butthey're not sharing the truthwith the American people."
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