{"id":249646,"date":"2026-05-19T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/blanche-admits-doj-failed-to-protect-epstein-victims-privacy\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T14:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T18:20:07","slug":"blanche-admits-doj-failed-to-protect-epstein-victims-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/blanche-admits-doj-failed-to-protect-epstein-victims-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Blanche admits DOJ \u2018failed\u2019 to protect Epstein victims\u2019 privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blanche admits DOJ \u2018failed\u2019 to protect Epstein victims\u2019 privacy<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-05-19 14:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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In his testimony before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche made a surprising admission: The Justice Department \u201cfailed\u201d in its rollout of the Jeffrey Epstein files by releasing victims\u2019 identities and personal information.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Victims of the late sex offender have told MS NOW they were retraumatized by seeing their personal information included unredacted in files released by the DOJ over the last six months.<\/p>\n

In response to questions from Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., Blanche did not directly say, \u201cI\u2019m sorry.\u201d But he admitted DOJ officials \u201cnever want to release a single victim\u2019s name,\u201d and that the mistakes were only present in a small percentage of the more than 6 million files. When those errors were identified, he said, \u201c[W]e owned up to them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Blanche\u2019s semi-apology was a step further than the public statements of his predecessor, former Attorney General Pam Bondi, who neither apologized to nor turned around to acknowledge Epstein survivors who came to watch her testify at a House Judiciary Committee hearing earlier this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yet Blanche\u2019s admission was not an easily obtained one. Rather, Murray asked him three separate times if he would apologize to victims whose identities and even nude photos were released in the file dump.\u00a0<\/p>\n

During his testimony, Blanche also seemed to suggest the DOJ has corrected each and every redaction failure brought to the department\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe second that a victim or their lawyer told us that we made a mistake,\u201d Blanche told Murray, \u201cwe pulled that document down.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked by Murray whether he would meet with survivors, Blanche countered, \u201cI have met with them. I\u2019ve met with many, many of the lawyers for the survivors of victims, as did Attorney General Bondi.\u201d<\/p>\n

But in a statement given to MS NOW, a coalition of nearly 20 survivors plus family members denied that Blanche had ever met with any of them,…<\/p>\n

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