AG Bondi Forced Onto Military Base Amid Rising Threats
Attorney General Pam Bondi has reportedly moved into secure military housing near Washington, D.C., after receiving a wave of death threats linked to international criminal networks and mounting political backlash over the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
Sources familiar with the situation told The New York Times that Bondi relocated from her Washington apartment to a protected military installation within the past month due to escalating security concerns.
According to those reports, the threats intensified after the capture of former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and amid criticism surrounding the Justice Department’s public release of Epstein-related documents.
Bondi is not the only senior official to take such precautions. The Times reported that several high-ranking members of the administration have moved into heavily protected housing near military facilities in the D.C. region after facing threats from criminal organizations, foreign adversaries, and political extremists.
Among them are Stephen Miller, a chief architect of the administration’s immigration agenda; Secretary of State Marco Rubio; former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem; and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Additional officials reportedly residing in military housing include Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll and Navy Secretary John Phelan, whose Washington residence suffered damage in a fire last year.
Bondi’s move comes as lawmakers in Congress prepare to question her about the Justice Department’s handling of Epstein-related records.
Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, confirmed that his panel is seeking testimony from Bondi and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick regarding the matter.
“I’m in communication with them,” Comer told reporters Wednesday. “We’re trying to get them in very, very soon.”
While some reports suggested certain officials were receiving housing free of charge, a representative for Noem previously told The Times that she was paying “fair-market rent” for her residence on a military base.
The controversy surrounding the Epstein files intensified after Bondi stated that the U.S. Department of Justice had released “all” available documents tied to the case.
However, the department later disclosed three previously unreleased interview summaries connected to the Epstein investigation. The records contain uncorroborated allegations involving President Donald J. Trump.
According to reporting from The Washington Times, one document includes claims from a woman who alleged she was assaulted by Epstein and by Trump when she was a minor.
Justice Department officials said the interview summaries had initially been withheld during the January document release after being mistakenly labeled as duplicates.
“After this was brought to our attention, we reviewed the entire batch with the similar coding and discovered 15 documents were incorrectly coded as duplicative,” the department said in a statement.
Democrats on Capitol Hill are investigating whether the department improperly withheld the files because they contain four FBI interview summaries—known as “302s”—connected to a woman who accused Trump of sexual assault.
President Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing related to Epstein and has never been charged with any crime tied to the disgraced financier.
In fact, documents within the same batch indicate that Trump alerted authorities in the mid-2000s after becoming suspicious of Epstein’s behavior.
The interviews themselves were conducted in 2019 following Epstein’s arrest on federal sex-trafficking charges.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt forcefully rejected the claims referenced in the documents.
“These are completely baseless accusations, backed by zero credible evidence, from a sadly disturbed woman who has an extensive criminal history,” Leavitt said.
Before the latest disclosures, congressional Democrats had accused the Justice Department of violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act, legislation requiring the government to release investigative records related to Epstein while protecting the identities of victims.
When the first wave of Epstein materials was released in January, officials warned that many statements collected during investigations could contain unverified or false claims submitted by witnesses.