For the past week, official Washington has talked constantly about the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, except for the agency that has custody of the Epstein files.

The Justice Department has been silent.

On Tuesday, the House and Senate agreed to pass a bill calling on Attorney General Pam Bondi to release all unclassified information and files related to the sprawling sex trafficking investigation into the onetime powerful financier.

The Justice Department so far has continued to say little about how it would respond to that demand. There are many reasons to doubt that a bulk release of the files is imminent.

On Wednesday, Bondi broke the official silence, but only slightly. At a news conference on an unrelated issue, she parried repeated questions about the Epstein files, saying: “We

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