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New Epstein files fail to quell outrage as advocates claim documents are being withheld
(www.theguardian.com)
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Consider for a moment the only thing we can confidently say they are reacting is things that would harm the perpetrators. They've redacted everybody but a victim time and again across the files they've released, frequently they'll react a perp in one document only to leave it unredacted in the next despite it having identical content (namely the text messages as there is message text contents as well as screenshots). Seeing as they already fail to redact child porn and are definitely redacting things that'll implicate people, including even Epstein I think you can make an extremely good argument they shouldn't be redacted at all when it's being done so plainly maliciously
Thank you for understanding my intention
They were looking for the president's name, and his favorites. 1,000 agents all last year was it on this? They probably used computer programs and ai to flag all mentions of people, redact by default all mentions of some things, etc to speed the process of redacting 8,000,000 files.
They were bad at it, partly because what they were redacting wasn't what they were supposed to be redacting, they were supposed to be protecting victims and safeguarding investigations. No one is more of a victim than the president and his party I suppose. As if there are ongoing investigations that aren't looking into how people found out about which abuse and how to capture and kill the information, and never how do we prosecute these people.