US EditionExclusive: Justice Department Scrambling to Find Holiday Volunteers to Redact the Epstein Files, Internal DOJ Email Says
Redactions in Jeffrey Epstein court files released by the Trump DOJ can be uncovered by copy-paste, revealing hidden text due to a procedural document-handling error.
- On Tuesday, the Department of Justice released another tranche of Jeffrey Epstein court records, and the DOJ said some contain untrue, sensationalist claims against President Donald Trump.
- A procedural issue with the redactions led to underlying selectable text in the DOJ's Epstein library, enabling hidden information to be revealed by copying despite black box overlays.
- Broe demonstrated that copying and pasting redacted paragraphs from the DOJ's Epstein library into Microsoft Word reveals hidden text, explaining `If we scroll down to anything that was blacked out, all you have to do is copy it... and paste it in, and that is the redacted amount right there.`
- Following the online posts, the Department of Justice temporarily removed a file after the Southern District of New York flagged it and restored a photo Saturday following backlash.
- Coverage of the batch shows about 30,000 files include five highlighted claims such as Epstein flight logs and an unnamed limo driver’s 1995 call referencing abusing some girl.
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Exclusive: Justice Department scrambling to find holiday volunteers to redact the Epstein files, internal DOJ email says
The Justice Department’s leadership asked career prosecutors in Florida Tuesday to volunteer over the “next several days” to help to redact the Epstein files, in the latest internal Trump administrationpush toward releasing the hundreds of thousands of photos, internal memos and other evidence around the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Ex-Air Force officer reveals trick to 'literally read the redactions in the Epstein files'
On Tuesday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) released another tranche of files relating to the two federal investigations into convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The documents are heavily redacted, though one expert recently discovered a trick to read some of the redacted materials.In a video posted to his Bluesky account, Jake Broe — a veteran of the U.S. Air Force who worked as a nuclear and missile operations officer — discovered that c…
DOJ appears to bungle Epstein Files redactions
The Justice Department has blamed its delayed release of some so-called Epstein files on needing more time to redact sensitive information, like details identifying the victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. But at least some of the redactions so far released appear to mistakenly disclose information meant to be obscured from the public. A 2022 complaint filed by the US Virgin Islands seeking damages from Epstein's estate was posted …
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