The Justice Department’s leadership asked career prosecutors in Florida to volunteer over the “next several days” to help redact the Epstein files, in the latest Trump administration push toward releasing the hundreds of thousands of photos, internal memos and other evidence around the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

A supervising prosecutor in the Southern District of Florida’s US Attorney’s Office emailed the entire district office on Tuesday — two days before Christmas — announcing an “emergency request from the [Deputy Attorney General’s] office the SDFL must assist with,” according to a copy of the email reviewed by CNN. “We need AUSAs to do remote document review and redactions related to the Epstein files,” the email said.

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[–] 83 points 10 months ago* (6 children)

I'm kind of getting the feeling that a few insiders in the DOJ are repulsed by this pedo shit and not doing a thorough job on purpose

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  • [–] 44 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    That would be ideal, but let's be real... Everyone who sees those files have been handpicked by a team of DOJ dirt diggers and psychologists.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    They would have selected a group of Trump loyalist to do their redactions. However it would be very hard to guarantee that every censor would remain a loyalist after reading "and then Trump had sex with the child" for 8 hours every day.

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  • [–] 50 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Come spend your Christmas covering up Donald’s kiddy diddling instead of celebrating with your family.

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  • [–] 48 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Literally working overtime to protect pedophiles.

    What the fuck is happening, lol.

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  • [–] 43 points 10 months ago

    The Christmas-week request, from a top career prosecutor in the US Attorney’s Office, attempts to entice volunteer attorneys to work on the files now, in exchange for days off later.

    Guys, they'll even throw in a pizza party.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago*

    lol

    lmao, even

    Edit: this is clearly an exercise in getting loyalists to go on the record. This is wild.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago

    That's why they are so messed up... using incompetent volunteers with bad instructions. Someone has already un-redacted some of the files.

    https://github.com/leedrake5/unredact?tab=readme-ov-file

    And someone else gave it a gui

    https://github.com/KingBarker/unredactGUI

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    That doesn't sound like volunteering to me:

    the SDFL must assist with

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago

    I'm in Florida, maybe I should volunteer, then do a piss poor job of redacting, so that anyone can remove the redaction and see the original text.

    "Oops! Did I do that? Sorry, I was only a volunteer. You get what you pay for."

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    I would love to see the instructions on how they are supposed to accomplish this task; exactly what is to be redacted and whom.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago*

    Hot take(?): If you're willing to do extra, unpaid work for free - partisanship aside - should you be allowed to do this at all in any non-elected/appointed, bureaucratic job? Especially with a "request," with the descriptor of "emergency," before it? Breaks my heart. *Edited to correct grammar

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