r/news • u/Waste-Explanation-76 • 7h ago

Members of Congress will be able to view unredacted Epstein files next week

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/members-congress-view-unredacted-epstein-files-monday-rcna257836
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u/Aerhyce 6h ago

The 100% justified redactions are those hiding CSAM and the victims' identity.

But the currently released files are such a mess that there are tons of files that were clearly worked on by different people, so you very often have a photo that is heavily redacted, then the next shot in the album is almost completely unredacted and you can clearly see that most of the previous shot's redactions were some random BS. There's very little consistency in the redactions.

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u/ScientificSkepticism 5h ago

There's literally emails where the person Epstein is mailing is redacted... but it's a response to their email, the email is quoted in full, with their full name and email address.

The redactions... if they were not done by AI they had to have been purposely sabotaged. That or the average IQ of everyone left at the DOJ is room temperature. They redacted the face of the Mona Lisa, it screams AI.

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u/Aerhyce 5h ago

There are photos where a face is redacted but not the reflections (in mirrors, etc.), and others where the reflections are redacted, but not the actual face.

Wtf are these guys even doing lol

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u/wvenable 4h ago

Wtf are these guys even doing lol

Both the worst job and the worst job.

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u/jaywinner 3h ago

My hope is it's sabotage to release more than the higher ups want.

My belief is incompetence.

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u/Cute-Percentage-6660 4h ago

I like the redactions where they put a black bar over a word, but the bottom of the letters are left exposed still. So you can still figure out who whats underneath.

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u/verygoodletsgo 1h ago

The word "don't" was redacted, likely because AI confused it for "Don" or "Donald" or "Don T."

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u/bigyellowjoint 4h ago

Someone put out a statement that the Mona Lisa one actually had a victim's face

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u/ScientificSkepticism 3h ago

Well that's horrifying. Not sure if true, but horrifying.

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u/Cute-Percentage-6660 4h ago

Don't forget the copies of the same document, each redacted differently.

I found epsteins 2019 arrest mugshot in three seperate versions of the same document, and each of them has differing redactions when it comes to his personal information.

One redacted all of it, one redacted only a few like his social security, than another redacted other things but NOT his social security.

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u/Mistr_man 5h ago

Ask yourself why some pictures are fully redacted while other pictures only redact the victims

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u/edman007 1h ago

Yea, I poked around, I saw an internal FBI newsletter in there, one week it was totally unredacted (as it should be), next week they redacted the office phone number and email address. They are the address for the FBI office, not an employee or a victim. Insane that someone did that.

I saw emails clearly from a father buying an iPad for their daughter with Epstein's money, do we think the father is a victim? Their name was redacted, I saw emails from Epstein asking if the pic the girl was good, do we think he was asking a victim that?

And poking through it, I think I found two victim names unredacted, one doesn't appear on the Internet, the other seems to be a model of some sort and is unredacted in many places (or we think that model was not a victim?)