Not all of them are like this. At least one isn't.

I choose to believe that the people who did this aren't idiots, but heroes.

This has happened before. Back when I used to browse the armpit of the internet there were classified military docs that had the same technique used.

I thought this was just gonna be made up, but it's true!!!

Go to this document and look for the text "Defendants Kahn and Indyke controlled and directed the activities of the other entities and personal bank accounts of Epstein" so you can get to the part with redactions.

Copy the redactions with Ctrl + C. Paste the redactions into either Notepad or another text editor that doesn't support advanced formatting like highlights.

Before:

After: (in notepad)

I wonder if this was intentional? Maybe the FBI agent assigned to this file knew the whole censor thing was a huge fiasco and simply did this.

I really hope this is malicious compliance and not incompetence...

teacher here. I blacked out words in a text for some test. kid held it up to the light. could read every word. was a pdf made in word.

Also, I wonder if you can use brute force for a lot of name reductions. You know, have a list of highly suspicious names, set the same font and size of the surrounding text, and try to see if it fits in the black box.

This is going to look obvious in hindsight but perhaps people should have kept this to themselves until every single Epstein file had been released. Because now the DOJ is just going to do their best to fix the problem.

Not that that saying much these guys are the fucking keystone cops.

There's several pages that are just completely black that it's like they drew a big black square with paint or they just copy pasted the same page probably

Guys. This is called resistance. These people are govt employees. We go through literally yearly training on maintaining classified documents. This wasn't gross incompetence, it was fucking intentional. They knew they could do it because they knew leadership was too fucking stupid to check it properly. Believe it or not the govt is largely run by people, just like you and I. We are doing what we can where we can.

Shame this fuck-up only happened in some of the pages.

we're all so blessed that autocracy is so stupid

There is nothing trumps admin can't fuck up. Its actually impressive.

THEY DID IT AGAIN

You can compare some of the redactions here

More than likely, you just had Eric doing these certain files. See Eric was pulled in from field work to help redact. Probably used word 2 or 3 times in his life and hates email.

Malicious compliance on the part of some DOJ intern maybe?

We needed to be quiet about this until they released all the tranches so that they're all readable but nooo someone had to go and tweet about it.

Happens all the time in the legal field. I once got a document in discovery that inverted the proper redactions. It was a roster of identifying information, all unredacted except for the actual relevant person in the case — that was redacted. 🤣

Redacting with black boxes over text is more common of a mistake than that.

The referenced video.

I mean, are there tech literate MAGAts who would read the Epstein files to test their convictions?

There's a tool called pdftotext...

It counts if it is black i guess

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