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.”

    • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
      14·
      4 hours 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?

  • weremacaque@lemmy.world
    111·
    2 days ago

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

    • HellsBelleOPEnglish
      503·
      2 days ago

      What if almost all of the names are politicians tho?

      • floofloof@lemmy.ca
        50·
        2 days 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.

      • oxysis@lemm.eeEnglish
        64·
        2 days ago

        They are all politicians, billionaires and other wastes of oxygen

      • weremacaque@lemmy.world
        29·
        2 days 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·
        1 day 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
      162·
      2 days ago

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

      • davidgro@lemmy.world
        20·
        2 days ago

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

        • HellsBelleOPEnglish
          17·
          2 days ago

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

      • Bieren@lemmy.world
        11·
        2 days ago

        And they should be redacted. But with this administration, the victims names and all personal information will not be redacted. Just the names and personal information of the perpetrators will be redacted.

      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        191·
        2 days ago

        They’ve already been redacted and destroyed what was incriminating long ago. Right now they are just fabricating evidence to pin on political enemies. There isn’t a single piece of information this administration could ever say that I would believe anymore. They illegally took over all independent bodies of government to weaponize them. Why would anyone trust the world being told by a fraud. He has no dignity, no morals, ethics, apathy, empathy or any kind of soul left. If NASA said we put man on the moon again, I wouldn’t believe it. All the scientists should just go home. Every finding they make has no credibility and will all have to be re-done years from now to establish if it were even true. Cancer treatment from the U.S.? Doubt. We will need bodies in other countries to confirm the methods might actually work. Which means restarting all the research from scratch and spending all the money again.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
        7·
        2 days ago

        How in the fuck isn’t someone brave enough to stop trump? There must have been 10 million ways now

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
    15·
    2 days 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.