It is totally inappropriate and against the separations of powers for the DOJ to surveil us as we search the Epstein files,” Jayapal wrote.
“Bondi showed up today with a burn book that held a printed search history of exactly what emails I searched,” the congresswoman said.
“That is outrageous and I intend to pursue this and stop this spying on members.”
Getty photographer Roberto Schmidt snapped a picture of the AG with a document titled “Jayapal Pramila Search History” —— along with numerous file names and document descriptions.
- Attorney General Pam Bondi at a House Judiciary Committee hearing seemed to have a printout of Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s history of searches of the Department of Justice’s database of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.
- Photos of a black binder that Bondi had at the hearing showed the words “Jayapal Pramila Search History” and a list of documents whose numbers coincide with the number of Epstein files.
- “It is totally inappropriate and against the separations of powers for the DOJ to surveil us as we search the Epstein files,” said the Washington state Democrat Jayapal.
- She and other members of Congress have visited the DOJ in recent days to view documents related to Epstein that are not available to the public.
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