A staffer in the Justice Department said in a secretly recorded video that the department would redact any Republican names from its investigative files on the late sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.
The administration has been funneling the Epstein files to Capitol Hill in a supposed show of transparency, but only liberals’ names will remain visible, the staffer said.
“If they’re released in any way, it’s going to be very redacted. They’ll redact every Republican or conservative person in those files, leave all the liberal Democratic people in those files,” Joseph Schnitt, acting deputy chief of the DOJ’s Office of Enforcement Operations, says in the video.
On the one hand this sounds entirely plausible, and I more or less kinda expected them to do this already. On the other hand, the source for this story is fucking Project Veritas
Add to that if you actually read the guys statement, it doesn’t read like someone with insider information. It’s much more like, “oh, yeah, of course they’re gonna do that. Have you been watching the crap this administration is doing? I’d be shocked if they didn’t.”
Which, like, he’s not wrong, but doesn’t sound like the comment of a guy who has some deep insider knowledge. Sounds like a dude who’s just kinda ranting about the current state of the government and politics. Most government employees I know aren’t exactly thrilled with how things are going.
James fucking O’Keefe!! Ok it’s bullshit.
Gross. That probally means this was done just to cloud the fucking conversation.
The right have learned that bullshit storms can be used for cover.
Yeah, I watched the source https://xcancel.com/jamesokeefeiii/status/1963617871281438731?s=46 there are more cuts than in a butcher shop and when he says they’ll remove Republicans from the list, that’s what he says “the list” and they subtitle it “the [Epstein] list”
Fully plausible, but the source is literally the boy who cried wolf.
Those guys are so good at getting gullible partisans to report bullshit.