U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is demanding the body issue a subpoena for unredacted Jeffrey Epstein flight logs as its “first act” now that it has been reconstituted.
The request comes in the wake of reports that the wealthy financier and convicted sex offender owned two jets and took dozens of flights with former president Bill Clinton aboard from 2002 to 2003.
“The Epstein plane logs should be the first act of this Senate Judiciary Committee. We should subpoena the uncensored copies from the FBI to determine the identities of those who flew on the Epstein jets,” Blackburn said in a statement.
Blackburn is referring to flight records seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 2019 when they raided Epstein’s private island, Little Saint James, off the coast of the US Virgin Islands. The records were handed over to a sealed grand jury that is investigating members of Epstein’s inner circle.
The unsealed logs that have been released show dozens of powerful people took flights on Epstein’s planes, including the former presidents Clinton and Trump, a three star Army Lieutenant General, a foreign diplomat, and a Citigroup executive.
Blackburn wants the Senate to access the full, unredacted logs in order to identify those who flew on Epstein flights.
“We must know who took flight on the planes, who paid for the flights, and who arranged for the flights. This must be done fully and openly,” Blackburn said.
It is unclear if the Senate Judiciary Committee will grant Blackburn’s request.
