Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, has been formally subpoenaed to appear before a House panel to answer questions about the justice department’s handling of the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and its release of the Epstein files.

The move came amid growing criticism from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle over the justice department’s compliance with a law passed last year requiring the full release of Epstein-related files.

Lawmakers have raised concerns that some disclosures exposed personal information about survivors, and have also accused the Department of Justice of improperly withholding and redacting material in violation of the law, including the names of people who may have committed crimes.

James Comer, chair of the House oversight and government reform committee, wrote in the subpoena letter that there were “questions regarding the Department of Justice’s handling of the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and his associates and its compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act”.

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    Another public circus. Nothing will be gained. She’ll insult the committee, proving her loyalty to Trump. She’ll be protected. She’ll continue to do Trump’s dirty work. Resistance or “push back” is just performative at this point.

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    WTF are they going to do? They purposefully made a law stating that the files would be released, but did not put a punishment in for not releasing them. They are engaging in theatre’s here … they could put a 1 year prison sentence in … right now … today … but no, doing a therapy session with a lady who 100% knows the law has no teeth.

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    Have Capitol Police execute her during her testimony and say their gun was accidentally discharged. It’s worked for cops every other time

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    Little pammy, or whoever she throws under the bus, is in big trouble. She protects pervert bullies because she likes watching little kids get beat up. If the stars align for her, the DOW will be over 50,000 and she won’t get into any trouble because, you know, the DOW and egregious behaviour are connected somehow. /s

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    I’m sure this time lying in front of congress will have consequences.

    Surely Democrats aren’t completely fucking useless.

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    More theatre but the dems like to hear her read from her book of insults and wicked burns.

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      I was gonna say, looking forward to more viral clips of her acting like a pissed-Off, self centered 14 year old.