'Epstein Files' Include Information Pertaining To National Security Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA , Attorney General Todd Blanche has claimed that there are no national security secrets included in the "Epstein files" - the trove of documents the Justice Department holds on deceased multimillionaire sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.
FILE - Documents that were included in the U.S. Department of Justice release of the Jeffrey Epstein files are photographed on Jan. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File) "There's not some tranche of super-secret documents about Jeffrey Epstein that we're withholding," Blanche said around the time that the DOJ started releasing the Epstein files last winter.
However, an inventory of the Epstein files shows that, contrary to what Blanche said, there is classified information included in the files . Government documents ostensibly can only be classified if their release would damage national security.
Todd Blanche: "There's not some tranche of super-secre