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.

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    Can someone explain how we might get anything close to a legitimate release of this evidence? There’s no oversight now that the administration has gutted every department. Can they not just stall as long as they want while they forge some fake documents that incriminate political opponents?

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      There is a good chance the entire government network is comprised thanks to DOGE. I’ve just been wait for someone to get access and leak it.

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        Idk. I think it’s gonna get weird before it gets good. Doge existing already compromised networks, in the sense that we had grossly unqualified people without clearance or training in these systems. They’ve been quiet since April, so I personally believe they abandoned their head-ass effort to switch from COBOL to fucking JavaScript. If they’re going to give it all to palantir, however, say what you will but Thiel hires the best network professionals in the industry. My personal bet is one of the doge boys is going to brag in some discord chat that he stole an entire state’s birth record so he could wish his crush Happy Birthday.

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          Sorry, the entire collection of government networks. Or at least the DOJ, IRS, HHS, and everywhere else they installed their own systems at. I figured it was obvious what I meant.

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      I have said it before, no use hoping for/expecting a full unedited release of the epstein files.
      (but I fully encourage continuous demands for it, to let them know it will not be forgotten and they can not get away with it without repercussions later on)

      The maga republicans will never release an original and untampered file. It will bring lasting damage to trump, their current election power, and most of all it jeopardizes project 2025 greatly.

      Project 2025 is here to stay and no threat to it will be tolerated.

      They will keep releasing edited/incomplete documents, hoping a complete version never surfaces (but hidden documents/videos are most likely out there, it is almost tangible in the air how fearful some are that more info will surface)

      But added to that, the Democrats currently at the top also will not allow the full files to be released and will thwart efforts where they can.

      This will be the 2000’s version of the JFK assassination files for a long time to come.