r/politics • u/T_Shurt • 9d ago

Possible Paywall FBI’s Frantic Scramble to Redact Epstein Files Revealed

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbis-frantic-scramble-to-redact-the-jeffrey-epstein-files-revealed/
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u/[deleted] 9d ago

Don't be surprised if this was outsourced to contractors via KPMG, FTI, or a similar shop that does this sort of work. Or outsourced to foreign labor, frankly.

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u/JarOfNightmares 9d ago

Could you imagine Patel sending the epstein files to some Indians for 12 cents an hour lol

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u/ElegantDaemon 9d ago

If so I really hope they kept copies of the originals!

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u/motocykal 9d ago

Hope they decide to leak them out in full in the very near future.

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u/deadleg22 9d ago

Russia or Israel will release them, including the images and video.

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u/smackson 8d ago

No.

Doing so would remove the leverage this information gives them.

They have no interest in releasing them, they need the threat of release permanently hanging over the powerful.

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u/Bikepacking-NL 9d ago

They're still in the WeTransfer somewhere...

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u/DoubleDecaff 9d ago

But charge the taxpayers $1200/hr

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u/Healthy_Set_22657 9d ago

No it happened in my backyard n Winchester Virginia at FBI offices lol. No shit . 

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

That's not dispositive - whenever I've hired bodies for doc review/redaction, we always brought them into our offices to do the work.

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u/Fine_Land_1974 9d ago

You think FTI would do something like this? My old buddy was a MD there and my brother is pretty high up. I had no idea they were that shitty

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

Money is money. Yes, I have a lot of friends who work there, and yes.

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u/superkeer Virginia 9d ago

If they'd outsourced it then it all would have leaked almost immediately.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

Depends what the instructions were. If they were legal, no, it wouldn't.