Massie presented instances of the DOJ publishing the names of victims while redacting named co-conspirators.
"Literally the worst thing you could do to the survivors, you did," said Massie. "And they're getting phone calls. A lot of these people didn't want to be known."
Massie sponsored the Epstein Files Transparency Act and was among the few Republicans to join Democrats in questioning Bondi at the hearing. He presented three documents to the House Judiciary Committee. The first was a mostly unredacted list of victims' names.
"And we know you touched the document, because you redacted one name," said Massie. "You redacted the lawyer's name, but you left the survivor's name there."
The second document was a file titled "Child Sex Trafficking," which redacted named co-conspirators, including Les Wexner. The third document was a fully obscured page, appearing as a single black box, which Massie called "emblematic" of the files release.
"These are the documents that we need, and you're holding onto and over-redacting because they have the names of the men who are implicated."
Massie asked several questions of Bondi.
"Who's responsible? Are you able to track who in your organization made this massive failure and released the victims' names? Are you able to track who it was that obscured Les Wexner's name as a co-conspirator in an FBI document? Do you have that kind of accountability?"
Bondi did not name who was responsible for the redaction but stated that Wexner's name "was added back in" within 40 minutes, and appeared over 4,000 times in other documents across the files. Massie countered that the correction specifically naming Wexner as a co-conspirator only happened after he caught the error.
During the hearing, Bondi was photographed consulting notes tracking a Democratic legislator's search history of the Epstein files. She also appeared to have prepared responses in which she asked committee members about unrelated criminal cases in their districts and their voting history.
"He's a hypocrite because he voted against the ban that we were talking about on deep fake AI porn," said Bondi of Massie. "Only two people voted against it, and you were one of them, hypocrite."
She also engaged in name-calling, accusing Massie of "Trump derangement syndrome" and calling him a "failed politician."
FBI Director Kash Patel responded that the FBI had "no credible information" that Wexner trafficked to other individuals.
"Is that your position as well?" Massie asked Bondi.
"My position is any victim who comes forward, of course, we would love to hear from them - 1-800-CALL-FBI," said Bondi, before asking if Massie had demanded answers of her predecessor, Merrick Garland, an appointee of President Joe Biden.
“This goes over four administrations,” said Massie. “You don't have to go back to Biden. Let's go back to Obama. Let's go back to George [W.] Bush. This cover-up spans decades, and you are responsible for this portion of it.”