Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments
neosmart.net417 points by ComputerGuru 2 days ago
417 points by ComputerGuru 2 days ago
> it’s safe to say that Pam Bondi’s DoJ did not put its best and brightest on this
Or worse. She did.
there are a few messaging conversations between FB agents early on that are kind of interesting. It would be very interesting to see them about the releases. I sometimes wonder if some was malicious compliance... ie, do a shitty job so the info get's out before it get re-redacted... we can hope...
I mean, the internet is finding all her mistakes for her. She is actually doing alright with this. Crowdsource everything, fix the mistakes. lol.
This would be funnier if it wasn’t child porn being unredacted by our government
Weren’t. Subjunctive mood.
Language is whatever people think it is, and "it wasn't" has plurality agreement which "it weren't" does not
If you think the child porn is the worst part of this mess, I’ve got news for you.
We’d all be lucky if it was just distributing child porn.
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Every second of my political consciousness in the United States has been acutely tinged with the awareness that a bunch of people, across most of the political spectrum live in a constant state of denial. Denial of personal responsibility or culpability. Denial of cognitive dissonance. Denial of any distinct, self-informed morals. Denial of anything but a fear of others. Denial of anything that makes them fearful or uncomfortable or might invite confrontation.
I've known from the second I started doing debate and FX/DX in highschool, well, let's just say I never thought that the majority of the 2FA-folks would be worth a damn when tyranny really came knocking. Fear of the other as a form of manipulation, and a distraction from class consciousness, has been their literal raison d'état since decades before I was born.
I guess I was shocked that the President being a convicted rapist and documented child predator would be a bridge too far. But then we re-elected him.
I believe it. We voted for this. We do nothing in the face of zero actual justice. This is exactly as good as we deserve. And best of all, it certainly doesn't stop here. This is what they chose to not redact. When we know they spent enormous tax-payer hundreds-of-people hours redacting the documents.
I don't think it's even conspiratorial to say they left stuff in, so they could use it as justification for not releasing the other HALF of the files that haven't been released, even overly censored.
We deserve this, and the much worse that our apathy has invited.
>and a distraction from class consciousness
As a non american looking in I feel like that applies to the other side as well and is how you ended up here.
Having paid a bit of attention during the election seeing bernie and trump at least in terms of rethoric more in line with eachother on the same trade agreements, migration, etc whilst also both outperforming Hillary in the same swing states, etc is not some coincidence.
And given that you live in a 2 party state it's always going to swing at some point eventually. No matter how depraved someone like trump is. If the next one is just as bad and they sit it out long enough they will get their turn.
I will certainly feel less confident ridiculing conspiracy theories.
I’d never believe Bill Gates would secretly slip antibiotics into his wife’s cocktail to treat an STI he got from a Russian prostitute on convicted pedophile estate.
But here we are.
I wish I could believe in more conspiracy theories. At least then I might believe there was some sort of master plan, that some individual or group had some image of a better world (to them) and that the world was being steered somewhere.
Unfortunately no, it just seems to be greed, incompetence, and incompetent greed. At least when a tank drives over a protestor somebody gets to be on the side of the tank. When the bus goes off a cliff because the driver sold the steering wheel everybody dies.
The owner of 4chan met with an Epstein associate 3 days before reinstating /pol/ which lead to the destruction of America.
Epstein was trying to remove tax on banker bonuses in the UK for some reason.
There might not be a single master plan but holy hell is this stuff intertwined with everything that happens.
>I wish I could believe in more conspiracy theories.
Username checks out... well, I can help ya.
You start out easy, like "who invented all those damn conspiracy theories and introduced them into the public culture, anyway?"
Epstein was involved in a UK corruption plot to reduce taxes on banker's bonuses. He was involved with insider trading around 9/11. This net is far reaching.
> become
the mascot of 4chan was literally pedobear, what time frame are you referring to?
The owner of 4chan met with an Epstein associate 3 days before reinstating /pol/ which lead to the destruction of America.
I wonder if this could be intentional. If the datasets are contaminated with CSAM, anybody with a copy is liable to be arrested for possession.
More likely it's just an oversight, but it could also be CYA for dragging their feet, like "you rushed us, and look at these victims you've retraumatized". There are software solutions to find nudity and they're quite effective.
Or it's distraction. Leave nudity in to use up attention that should be turning to analysis of what's been redacted.
There's redaction to protect victims and there's redaction to protect specific co-conspirators in Epstein's spy ring
the issue is that mistakes can't be fixed in the sense once they are discovered, it doesn't matter if they are eventually redacted
Let's see her sued for leaking PII. Here in Europe, she'd be mincemeat.
The US administration is, at present, regularly violating the law and ignoring court orders. Indeed, these very releases are patently in violation of multiple federal laws -- they're simultaneously insufficiently-responsive to meet the requirements of the law requiring the release of the files and fall afoul of CSAM laws by being incompletely redacted.
The challenge, as we're all experiencing together, is that the law is not inherently self-enforcing.
Can you provide a couple examples of the laws they're violating?
How about court orders?
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/ice-violations-judge-...
> ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence," Schiltz said, adding that he counted 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/frustrations-from-judge-prosecu...
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"Allegations" from the exact judges whose orders aren't being enacted? The orders in question are pretty simple: release this guy. Don't take this guy out of state. It's pretty clear when they're not being followed. This guy is not a slouch:
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/27/patrick-schiltz-jud...
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.230...
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.230...
Did you notice that one article I linked involved a DoJ lawyer admitting that she couldn't convince ICE to obey court orders that she was trying to transmit to them? That's beyond an allegation and into admission. How is that not evidence?
More on these ignored court orders:
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/28/ice-illegally-detai...
At this point you're taking a piss, this is not a honest discussion stance.
Judges themselves complained about their own orders being ivolated/ignored. Repeatedly.
> you're taking a piss
"You are taking a piss" -- you are currently urinating.
"You are taking the piss" -- you are mocking me or this.
If someone violates a court order don’t they get arrested?? Can’t the judge pronounce the perpetrators should be arrested instead of just complaining?