{"id":18959,"date":"2026-02-13T04:22:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T04:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mike-johnson-chides-doj-for-tracking-lawmakers-perusal-of-unredacted-epstein-files-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T04:22:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T04:22:05","slug":"mike-johnson-chides-doj-for-tracking-lawmakers-perusal-of-unredacted-epstein-files-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mike-johnson-chides-doj-for-tracking-lawmakers-perusal-of-unredacted-epstein-files-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Johnson chides DOJ for tracking lawmakers\u2019 perusal of unredacted Epstein files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday he disapproves of the Justice Department surveilling lawmakers who come to agency headquarters to review the unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files. &ldquo;I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s appropriate for anybody to be tracking that,&rdquo; Johnson told reporters. &ldquo;So I will echo that to anybody involved with DOJ&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/02\/12\/congress\/member-backlash-to-doj-tracking-00778751\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday he disapproves of the Justice Department surveilling lawmakers who come to agency headquarters to review the unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files. &ldquo;I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s appropriate for anybody to be tracking that,&rdquo; Johnson told reporters. &ldquo;So I will echo that to anybody involved with DOJ&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}