US House committee subpoenas Bill and Hillary Clinton in Epstein probe
The committee is also seeking sworn interviews with former attorneys general Merrick Garland and William Barr, and former FBI directors Comey and Mueller
The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed the Justice Department on Tuesday for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, part of a congressional investigation that lawmakers believe may show links to President Donald Trump and other former top officials.
The Republican-controlled committee also issued subpoenas for depositions with former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and eight former top law enforcement officials.
The committee’s actions showed how even with lawmakers away from Washington on a month-long break, interest in the Epstein files is still running high.
Trump has denied prior knowledge of Epstein’s crimes and claimed he cut off their relationship long ago, and he has repeatedly tried to move past the Justice Department’s decision not to release a full accounting of the investigation.
But lawmakers from both major political parties, and many in the Republican president’s political base, have refused to let it go.
Since Epstein’s 2019 death in a New York jail cell as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges, conservative conspiracists have stoked theories about what information investigators gathered on Epstein – and who else could have been involved.