DOJ Tracks Congress’s Epstein Searches Because Privacy Is Overrated
KEY POINTS
- •Congressional members used DOJ terminals this week to review unredacted Epstein files hosted at Justice Department headquarters.
- •Attorney General Pam Bondi was photographed with notes showing lawmakers’ specific Epstein search histories during a tense House hearing.
- •Democrats plan legal action and leadership-level coordination demanding DOJ stop creating ‘discrete logins’ that log member searches.
Hold onto your search histories, America! On Wednesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi was caught red-handed at a House Judiciary hearing wielding notes revealing Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s very own Epstein dossier queries, as if prepping a Hogwarts spellbook titled 'How to Stalk Congress 101.' Democrats like Jayapal (D-Wash.) spilled that DOJ employees literally sat inches from them, monitoring searches on DOJ terminals while scanning unredacted Epstein files, triggering comparisons to a 'burn book' by Jamie Raskin (D-Md.). Bipartisan anger surged with Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) decrying blatant constitutional disrespect, while Republicans remarked it might have been a harmless ‘oversight,’ sparked by Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) optimistic defect in spy logic. Meanwhile, Democrat Becca Balint is rallying legal firepower and a letter campaign shouting 'no discrete logins allowed!' And in a plot twist worthy of daytime TV, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) admitted she found the digital tagging so creepy she nearly asked for a hug. Meanwhile, DOJ insists this snooping is “to protect victims” — which sounds exactly like the ‘We only monitor because we love you’ of governmental privacy breaches. Talk about turning congressional oversight into an episode of congressional overreach!
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Congress uses DOJ’s terminals to peek at Epstein files, DOJ screenshots their queries, and Democrats feel like their browsers got haunted. Privacy? Just a suggestion.
Watching DOJ employees watch Congress’s search history is like a weird sequel to Michael Scott’s surveillance montage — but with more subpoenas.
When the Justice Department tracks lawmakers’ Epstein file searches, you realize the real secret is who’s recording who’s nosing around the secrets.
Source: Axios | Published: 2/12/2026 | Author: Andrew Solender
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