Former US President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary are among a range of high-profile names to receive subpoenas from a congressional committee to testify about deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n
Republican James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, issued the subpoenas on Tuesday to the Clintons, as well as eight other individuals. <\/p>\n
The committee is looking for more information about Epstein’s history, after President Donald Trump’s administration decided against releasing more federal files on the late financier.<\/p>\n
That decision sparked outrage among Trump’s supporters and some liberals, as many believe the files include a “client list” of famous men affiliated with Epstein.<\/p>\n
The subpoenas cast a wide net across Justice Department leadership during the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations, and the committee also subpoenaed the department itself for records related to Epstein. <\/p>\n
Merrick Garland, who headed the department under former President Joe Biden, received notice from the committee, according to Comer.<\/p>\n
Both attorneys general during Trump’s first term in office, Jeff Sessions and William Barr, did as well.<\/p>\n
Former FBI directors James Comey and Robert Mueller, will also be compelled to testify before the committee.<\/p>\n
It is not immediately clear if the individuals named by Comer will ultimately appear before the committee and, if they do, whether they will testify publicly.<\/p>\n
Federal prosecutors charged Epstein with sex trafficking of minors and other crimes in 2019, during the first Trump administration.<\/p>\n
He died by suicide in jail later that year, which led to questions and rumours about his death while in custody.<\/p>\n
This summer, current US Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the justice department had reviewed its Epstein records and found no evidence of the long-rumoured “client list”. She also said evidence supported he died by suicide while in custody and that the federal government would not release any more of its files.<\/p>\n
The announcements sparked outrage among some in Trump’s base who believed his administration was not forthcoming about Epstein-related materials. <\/p>\n
In a rare break with President Trump, multiple members of the House Republican caucus have called for greater inquiry into the case.<\/p>\n
Comer’s subpoenas indicate that the House Oversight Committee — which wields significant investigatory powers — will continue to press for information from the Trump administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former US President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary are among a range of high-profile names to receive…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":121422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-121421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114977330700623352","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}