Members of Congress who gained access to unredacted Justice Department files on Jeffrey Epstein on Monday said they found evidence that at least six men had been hidden from public view without clear legal cause, reviving claims that the Trump Administration had improperly shielded powerful figures from scrutiny.

Two House lawmakers who reviewed the files—Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Ro Khanna of California—said the redactions appeared to include one “high-ranking” foreign government official and other prominent individuals whose names and photographs were obscured in the versions previously made public.

“There are six men, some with their photos, who’ve been redacted, and there’s no explanation for why those people were redacted,” Massie, a Republican, said after spending roughly two hours going through the documents in a secure reading room at a Justice Department satellite office. He added that at least one of the six was a U.S. citizen and at least one was foreign, but declined to share their names. “I probably should do that from the House floor or in a committee hearing,” Massie said.

Their remarks came on the first day members of Congress were allowed to examine unredacted versions of roughly three million Epstein-related files that the Justice Department had already released in heavily redacted form. The review follows months of criticism from lawmakers, survivors, and advocates who argued the Trump Administration failed to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act—a law President Donald Trump signed in November requiring the Justice Department to release all unclassified records related to Epstein and his associates.

While the act bans redactions based on “embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary,” it allows redactions only in narrow cases, such as protecting victims’ identities.

Yet when the DOJ began releasing documents in recent weeks, many were so heavily redacted that they offered almost no new information.

“These six are just what we found in two hours of reviewing the files,” Khanna said. “The broader issue is why so many of the files they’re getting are redacted in the first place.”

“What Americans want to know,” he added, “is who are the rich and powerful people who went to this island? Did they rape underage girls? Did they know that underage girls were being paraded around?”

Under Justice Department rules, lawmakers can review the files on computers in a secure reading room at a Justice Department satellite office, though they must give 24 hours’ notice, can’t bring electronic devices, and may only take handwritten notes.