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FBI agents are working round the clock (12-hour accommodation) on this week’s enthusiastic mission.
The urgent work is not an immediate national security threat, and instead reviewing documents and other evidence in the investigation of the accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, to be edited before the Department of Justice makes public, according to those familiar with the situation.
Desperate efforts are largely trying to solve the problems of the White House itself. Trump’s allies incited a conspiracy to Epstein’s suicide death and spent months wondering whether the government had retained information that could reveal the prominent people involved in his suspected crime.
Last month, Attorney General Pam Bondy promoted the release of the Epstein Files. This was driven by risky from Trump’s Magazine supporters, who were overwhelmed by what they saw, in the hopes of learning new information.
Agents have been ordered to secure investigations that include several related to threats from China and Iran to complete the edits, people who described the issue say.
All departments of the department are ordered to provide agents to the cause, including those working on criminal and national security issues. This weekend, agents at the Washington Field office are spending hours on editing duties, people explaining the issue.
“Under the Attorney General’s leadership, the Department of Justice is relentlessly working to provide unprecedented transparency to Americans,” a Justice Department spokesman said in response to a CNN investigation. An FBI spokesman added that “all appropriate management and legal requirements are being complied with.”
For most of the week, agents can be seen submitting to FBI headquarters rooms, with some working in the field office in New York and the FBI office in Chantilly, Virginia, sources said. For hours, agents sit at a computer bank and use editing software to identify required edits under federal laws, including privacy laws. The material also includes video.
Bondi ordered the current edit after committing to publish all evidence related to Epstein’s investigation. The first tranche, released in February, was already composed primarily of documents in the public domain.
The Justice Department called the release “symbolic,” and Bondy said in a letter to FBI director Kash Patel that she learned that she was behind and that New York investigators led the Epstein case and held a thousand-page document. She requested that the documents and videos be created in her office soon.
“There are no withholding or restrictions on my or your access. The Department of Justice ensures that the disclosure of these files is done in order to protect the privacy of the victims and in accordance with the law, as he did his entire career as a prosecutor,” Bondi wrote to Patel.
But the problem remains that Justice and FBI officials do not believe that new documents set for release in the coming days will contain bombs. Authorities expect that even after the release of the latest documents, those who believe there is a secret hidden will continue to believe there is a cover-up, as if the cottage industry of the plot to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy continues to flourish.
Even weeks after the release of the document’s first tranche, social media posts about other Department of Justice enforcement issues are attacked with replies from apparent pro-Trump accounts demanding a more substantial release of the so-called Epstein files.
Justice officials say that even if the latest tranche of the documents does not meet questions from critics, the department is pleased that Bondy has access to more documents and evidence than if he had not ordered a review.
“The goal is transparency,” the authorities said.
Reviews of the Epstein Papers are part of a broad release of President Donald Trump’s promised records, including documents relating to the assassination of Martin Luther King and President Kennedy.
Thousands of pages of the JFK assassination document released earlier this week have been subject to another controversy as some people’s Social Security numbers and other personal information have not been compiled.
Experts said JFK’s records do not contain new information to support the plot about who killed the president. Tom Samork, the assistant director of the Assassination Record Review Board, told CNN that nothing changes the current conclusion of Kennedy’s assassination, as he reviewed.
The pending release of the Epstein document raised concerns that victims could revisit if personal information was released.
Christina Rose, former director of the Department of Justice’s Office for Crime Victims, urged the FBI and the Department of Justice to have edits done to protect victim information.
“To uncover personally identifiable information from the Epstein Files without the victim’s permission or consultation is a shocking betrayal of trust and a horrifying violation of the Department of Justice’s own policies,” Rose said. “The Department of Justice is strictly responsible for protecting the personal information of victims and witnesses of crimes, otherwise it could lead to unnecessary trauma and distress and the safety of the victims.
