The Trump Justice Department is attempting to postpone or block scheduled testimony by former Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was slated to appear before the House Oversight Committee in conjunction with its investigation into the Epstein files.

“The Department of Justice has stated Pam Bondi will not appear on April 14 for a deposition since she is no longer Attorney General and was subpoenaed in her capacity as Attorney General,” the Oversight Committee announced on Wednesday morning, as Punchbowl News’ Max Cohen reported. He noted that Oversight said it will contact Bondi’s personal counsel to “discuss next steps regarding scheduling her deposition.”

Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman remarked that he does not think DOJ’s efforts “will fly” with Democrats and even some Republicans on the committee.

Indeed, also on Wednesday, U.S. Reps. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Nancy Mace (R-SC) sent a letter to Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, urging him to “make clear former Attorney General Pam Bondi remains obligated to comply with the Oversight Committee’s subpoena and appear for her scheduled deposition on April 14, 2026.”

They stated that “serious questions remain regarding the DOJ’s non-compliance and their handling of the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and his associates while she was Attorney General.”

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Bondi’s removal “does not diminish the Committee’s legitimate oversight interests in seeking her sworn testimony or the need for accountability and information about files withheld from the public by the DOJ.”

They also asked Comer to “publicly reaffirm” Bondi must appear “as ordered or face appropriate enforcement if she refuses to comply.”

That enforcement could come in the form of contempt charges.

“Our bipartisan subpoena is to Pam Bondi, whether she is the Attorney General or not,” Ranking Member Robert Garcia (D-CA) said, Scripps News reports. “She must come in to testify immediately, and if she defies the subpoena, we will begin contempt charges in the Congress. The survivors deserve justice.”

The New York Times’ Michael Gold reports that U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace “and others have argued that Bondi is not off the hook, because the subpoena (which Mace introduced) is for Bondi and doesn’t refer to her role as the AG.”

“This is their playbook,” commented U.S. Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA). “Republicans will drag their feet like they have with everything else to enable perpetrators to escape accountability. I filed an amendment to hold Bondi in contempt once before. Accountability is a nonnegotiable.”

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The Trump administration’s Office of Personnel Management is seeking the protected, possibly personally identifiable health information of 8 million federal employees and their families, including doctors’ visit notes, diagnoses, treatments, and prescriptions. Experts warn the information could be used against politically active workers or family members whose views are in opposition to the administration or its policies.

Among those who could be affected are federal workers, retired members of Congress, mail carriers, and their immediate family members, CBS News reports.

Sharona Hoffman, a health law ethicist at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, told CBS that the “concern here is the more information they have, they could use it to discipline or target people who are not cooperating politically.” She also noted the data, which could be granular, could be used to analyze costs and improve the system.

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Former OPM employee Michael Martinez, now a senior counsel at Democracy Forward, told CBS his concern would be how the administration might use information on workers or family members who obtained abortions or transgender treatment.

“You can anticipate a scenario where this information on 8 million Americans is now in the hands of OPM and there’s a real concern of how they use it,” Martinez said. “They’ve given no information about how they would treat that information once they have it.”

Digital health strategist Jodi Daniel, who helped develop the legal framework for HIPAA privacy rules, called the language in OPM’s request “quite broad,” and noted that it “encompasses potentially a lot of information and data and is sort of light on justification.”

CVS Health executive Melissa Schulman urged OPM to reconsider, warning, “OPM’s request raises substantial HIPAA compliance issues.”

Schulman argued that federal law allows OPM to examine records but not collect data.

“It’s kind of shocking to think of them having protected health information without having strict guardrails,” said Jonathan Foley, another former OPM employee.

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Some military and national security experts were stunned that President Donald Trump publicly revealed so many operational details from America’s rescue mission of two pilots downed in Iran, expressing concern that doing so could put lives at risk.

“How many men did you send altogether, approximately? To the operation?” Trump at one point asked General Dan “Razin” Caine, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during Monday’s White House briefing.

“I’d love to keep that a secret,” Caine responded.

“I’ll keep it a secret, but it was hundreds and hundreds of these people,” Trump said, before elaborating further. “But hundreds of people went into this journey. Hundreds of people could have been killed.”

He also acknowledged that “people that were within the military” said it was not a “wise” decision. “I understood that, but I decided to do it.”

General Caine told reporters that he needed to keep some information classified. “I will retain what I must in the event that we have to go do this again sometime,” he said.

Some experts blasted the president.

“Trump and his team are disclosing a LOT of detail about this rescue mission – how they found the US pilots, how they tricked the Iranians, CIA capabilities – when we are still at war, pilots are flying over Iran daily, and this could happen again. Seems like a bad idea!” warned Tommy Vietor, former National Security Council spokesperson under President Barack Obama.

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“SO much detail about the CIA drone that found the pilot,” Vietor added.

“CIA Director and the Chairman scold the media about not disclosing details of the Iran rescue operation, and then Trump blurts out it was a CIA ‘camera’ – presumably a drone but maybe a satellite – that could see the pilot at night from 40 miles away. Lot of detail!” Vietor noted.

“In the interest of our national security, there is so much operational detail out there now that we’d be better off not knowing. Including from Trump in this briefing. Per usual,” lamented Paul Rieckhoff, an Iraq War veteran, founder of a veterans’ nonprofit, and a political science lecturer.

“Members of the U.S. IC [Intelligence Community] and military are absolutely floored right now that Trump and Hegseth are publicly discussing specifics of how this past weekend’s successful CSAR [combat search and rescue] operation in Iran was accomplished,” wrote Travis Akers, a retired U.S. Navy Intelligence Officer. “They are directly endangering the lives of Americans.”

“I am not going to confirm or deny specifics of any operation or how it was executed, but the fact that Trump is even discussing specifics for this past weekend’s CSAR operation is gross negligence and WILL put more Americans in harm’s way. Unacceptable,” Akers also noted.

Q: “Was everyone on board with the operation or were there people trying to talk you out of the operation this weekend?”

Trump: “Not everybody was on board. There were military people, very professional, that preferred not doing it…How many men did you send altogether?”

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— The Bulwark (@BulwarkOnline) April 6, 2026

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