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The FBI’s New York field office normally handles counterintelligence, counterterrorism, public corruption, international drug trafficking, and financial crime investigations. Right now, though, it has been ordered to prioritize redacting sensitive information in the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Vanity Fair reports, citing multiple sources, that nearly a thousand agents, who normally work on national security issues in the bureau’s largest field office, are working night and day combing the documents instead of on their regular jobs.

“It’s literally all hands on deck,” one unnamed source told the magazine. “I even saw an agent walking in with a pillow.” One former agent called the situation “ludicrous.”

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[-] weremacaque@lemmy.world 106 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Dont redact anything. These are pedophiles. We can easily make new celebrities that aren’t sexually attracted to children.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What if almost all of the names are politicians tho?

[-] oxysis@lemm.ee 63 points 1 year ago

They are all politicians, billionaires and other wastes of oxygen

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The amount of effort going into this makes it pretty much certain there's nasty stuff about Trump in there. He couldn't have signalled it more clearly.

[-] weremacaque@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why would the politicians be worth keeping if they molest children?

Q Anon is about getting rid of pedophiles in power only if they’re liberal. I’m scorched earth. Get them all out.

[-] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Then, to borrow a phrase popularized by one of the names they're probably highlighting with a Sharpie, lock them up.

[-] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago

Eh the victims might like to be unnamed if they haven't come forward already

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I hadn't actually considered that, but I don't trust them to only be redacting the victims.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

Seeing as the first tranche listed Trump's name 7 times, my guess is that's why this bunch is being combed through.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago

Yep, there's definitely doing to be a few that slip through.

[-] prole 31 points 1 year ago

And they just shut up and do it? Fucking useless agencies.

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And they just shut up and do it? Fucking useless agencies.

Seriously. Aren't they supposed to use their "particular set of skills" to protect the country from enemies both foreign and domestic, or something like that?

[-] suddenlyme@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

Oh. You’re being serious

[-] elvith@feddit.org 19 points 1 year ago
[-] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago

Hopefully they just “redact” it with blacked out text in Word document.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don't see many of those lately. Seems training has been upgraded.

[-] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

This is the government we’re talking about. I’d be shocked if it wasn’t made available as a WordPerfect 5.1 file.

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

How dare you besmirch the glory that was WordPerfect!

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago
[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I got so excited, and now I am weeping inside because there is no MacOS version 😔

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

If reality were a TV show, it would be the laziest writing ever. Gee I wonder why they're redacting all of that shit.

[-] Late2TheParty@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago
[-] Botzo@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

It only takes one leak...

[-] takeda@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago
[-] tonytins@pawb.social 11 points 1 year ago

That damning, huh?

[-] MichaelScotch@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

If this is true, it’s a big fucking deal. We can’t let this happen.

[-] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wonder what needs redacting. 🤔

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago
[-] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I hope they use that reversible redaction tool from Microsoft word

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I'm 100% absolutely positive that putting the FBI office in the biggest media market in the world, home to the New York Times, the major TV networks, and 800,000 influencers in charge of keeping this secret is a wonderful idea.

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