WASHINGTON, July 29 -- More than two dozen Epstein survivors told Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis this week that their meeting with acting Attorney General Todd Blanche had been "a box-checking exercise arranged only after his confirmation was put at risk." It was the second time in three weeks that survivors walked out of a Justice Department session feeling they had been managed rather than heard.

Dani Bensky, one of the accusers who attended, said Blanche "danced around his wording, repeatedly interrupted us" and offered no credible plan to pursue accountability beyond Epstein's primary co-defendants. Bensky had made similar observations after an earlier DOJ session in mid-July that survivors described as abrasive and uncommitted...