Photographs taken by Reuters during a congressional hearing on Wednesday showed the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, holding a document titled “Jayapal Pramila Search History”, listing files that the Democratic US representative Pramila Jayapal had accessed during her review of the Epstein materials.

“DoJ has extended Congress the opportunity to review unredacted documents in the Epstein files,” a justice department spokesperson said in a statement. “As part of that review, DoJ logs all searches made on its systems to protect against the release of victim information.”

“There is someone or two people from the [justice department] monitoring you as you sit on those computers,” Mace told NPR. “There is a tech person who logs you into the computer. They log you into the computer because they’re giving you your own identification. They are tracking all of the documents that members of Congress open, and they’re tracking everything that you do in that room.”

I think it would be really big news if they suddenly stopped trying to play dirty.