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   WASHINGTON — Attorney General Pam Bondi released a list of 300   
   politicians and prominent people who were named in the Epstein files, as   
   she told Congress that all of the docs that the Department of Justice   
   was required to reveal have been made public.   
      
   Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Bondi noted that privileged   
   material is still being withheld as she outlined the list of government   
   officials and “politically exposed” individuals who appeared in the   
   files in a letter to the heads of the House and Senate Judiciary   
   Committees.   
      
   “The Department released all ‘records, documents, communications and   
   investigative materials in the possession of the Department’ that   
   ‘relate to’ any of nine different categories,” Bondi and Blanche wrote.   
      
   Some of the 300 names listed include President Trump, Barack and   
   Michelle Obama, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Bill Cosby, Robert De   
   Niro, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Jay Z and Kim Kardashian.   
      
   Also included are Prince Harry, Woody Allen, Kamala Harris, Mark   
   Zuckerberg, Bruce Springsteen, Elon Musk, Pope John Paul II, Nancy   
   Pelosi, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Bono, Beyonce, and   
   more.   
      
   Inclusions in the files does not imply wrongdoing, or even direct   
   contact with Epstein.   
      
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   Several of the individuals had “extensive direct email contact” with   
   Epstein or his madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, while others were referenced   
   “in a portion of a document (including press reporting) that on its face   
   is unrelated to the Epstein and Maxwell matters,” the two DOJ bosses   
   explained.   
      
   The DOJ had been given a deadline of Dec. 19 under the Epstein Files   
   Transparency Act to publicly divulge all files pertaining to the late   
   notorious sex predator Jeffrey Epstein.   
      
   Epstein files included details about organizations with alleged links to   
   Epstein, such as his trafficking and financial operations, as well as   
   internal DOJ emails of feds who were investigating him and his   
   associates.   
      
   A team of hundreds of lawyers combed through some 6 million pages worth   
   of files and released over 3.5 million pages of material several weeks   
   after that remarkably short deadline, per the DOJ’s figures.   
      
   Files withheld from the public include material subject to   
   “deliberative-process privilege, work-product privilege, and   
   attorney-client privilege,” Bondi and Blanche explained. Additionally,   
   the DOJ made redactions of victims’ names and personally identifiable   
   information.   
      
   Blanche previously revealed that there is a “small number of documents”   
   on Epstein that are in limbo due to litigation and will be publicly   
   released if a court approves.   
      
   “No records were withheld or redacted ‘on the basis of embarrassment,   
   reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government   
   official, public figure, or foreign dignitary,'” Bondi and Blanche   
   emphasized.   
      
   “Any omissions from the list are unintentional and, as explained in the   
   previous letters to Congress, a result of the volume and speed with   
   which the Department complied with the Act,” the two added.   
      
   “Individuals whose names were redacted for law-enforcement sensitive   
   purposes are not included.”   
      
   The missive was sent to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck   
   Grassley (R-Iowa) and ranking member Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), as well as   
   House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and ranking   
   member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Saturday.   
      
   For reasons that are not entirely clear, Bondi did not sign the letter,   
   but Blanche did, though her name was printed on top of his.   
      
   Critically, the Epstein files include some accusations and tips that the   
   DOJ was unable to verify or deemed unreliable.   
      
   Last week, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who co-led the Epstein Files   
   Transparency Act alongside libertarian-leaning Rep. Thomas Massie   
      
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