Democrat says they are making sure people are held accountablepublished at 18:06 GMT 11 February
Helena Humphrey
Reporting from Capitol Hill
I just spoke with the Democrat from New Mexico Melanie Stansbury, who sits on the key
House Oversight Committee which is investigating the Epstein files.
I asked her
what accountability looks like when we’ve heard the Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche saying there will be no further action taken after this latest
batch of files was released.
Stansbury pointed to the oath that all lawmakers and
officials serving under the Trump Administration have sworn to the
Constitution, and that their job is to execute the law.
In this case, the law
in question is the Epstein Files Transparency Act which was passed by Congress
and signed by President Trump in November.
These lawmakers and officials
will not be there forever, she told me, “and they certainly will not be
protected by this president forever”.
“At the end of the day, while this DOJ
is refusing to indict and prosecute individuals,” Stansbury says, “we are
building a case for further indictments and prosecutions. And part of the work
of Congress right now is to build the congressional record to make sure that
people are held accountable.”
