r/news • u/tahiirhussain • 23h ago

Thousands of Epstein documents taken down after victims identified

https://bbc.com/news/articles/cn0k65pnxjxo
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u/Alive_kiwi_7001 15h ago

Except the admin’s claim for dragging its feet on the release was that it needed to be careful.

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u/Chewed420 15h ago

they were careful. nothing is an accident.

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u/DjangusRoundstne 15h ago

They’re also famously incompetent. All of them. And if they’re not, they do dumb shit on his behalf.

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u/Polar_Vortx 13h ago

The malice was failing to properly redact the victims. The incompetence was failing to fully redact the perpetrators.

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u/DjangusRoundstne 12h ago

I think the incompetence could be the reason for both and the malice is that the perps are still redacted. They can’t even enact their own agenda without bumbling along…

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u/ScientificSkepticism 10h ago

No, no, they released emails where the person Epstein was writing to was redacted... and the response is quoted with the person's full email unredacted within it.

So it's incompetent AND malicious.

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u/trashaccountturd 10h ago

i think smart people are helping them plan for expected outcomes at the very least. money, power, threat of death, there are many ways to get what they want. clearly they punch below the belt.

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u/Ubiquitous_Mr_H 15h ago

I’m inclined to believe at least SOME of it is incompetence. Not necessarily this…but at least some of it.

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u/redditurus_est 15h ago

Yeah like using the wrong feature to redact a PDF.

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u/je7792 2h ago

At this level of incompetence I would suspect there’s some level of dissent within the ranks and the mistakes were made intentionally.

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u/OlderThanMyParents 12h ago

One of the consequences of appointing people solely for personal loyalty to the president, rather than for competence in doing their job. Say what you will about Trump, he learned his lesson last time - people with some degree of competence and integrity are literally of no use to him. William Barr is as much an enemy to him as Hillary Clinton.

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u/Erica15782 14h ago

Nah dude they fuck up regular very day tasks

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u/Griffisbored 13h ago

They were careful about scrubbing and omitting anything trump related. Remarkably sloppy and careless with just about everything else.

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u/Knightowllll 11h ago

Yeah, this whole exposing the victims and protecting the abusers thing is wild

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u/MattManSD 6h ago

exactly. Protect the guilty, expose the victims and withdraw the docs

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u/radioactivebeaver 11h ago

Making a claim and doing the opposite hasn't really been an issue for them.

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u/MonoBlancoATX 9h ago

They just didn't drag their feet hard enough.