India, March 4 -- The Department of Justice has kept nearly 48,000 files related to probe into Jeffrey Epstein from the public, despite having released over 2 million pages of documents in accordance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

The initial legally required document releases totaled more than 3 million pages. However, that number has now decreased to approximately 2.7 million, as per an analysis conducted by CBS News and The Wall Street Journal.

A representative from the Justice Department informed the news outlets that "47,635 files were offline" for additional review and are expected to be ready for re-production by the end of the week.

According to a previous report by The Independent, the offline files in question conta...