Thursday, November 27, 2025

Trump's FBI Spent Nearly $1 Million Redacting Epstein Files

The bill mandating the Department of Justice to release the Jeffrey Epstein files has been signed into law, but certain parts may still never be seen by the public. That's at least in part because the DOJ has been paying FBI agents nearly $1 million in overtime to work on the "Epstein Transparency Project" at a bureau facility in Winchester, Virginia.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 11:32 PM | 10 COMMENTS | permalink

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FBI Director Kash Patel has tasked nearly 1,000 agents on the project, which, according to internal reports, has also been referred to as the "Special Redaction Project." Between March 17 and March 22, the bureau spent $851,344, according to a Bloomberg report, and agents racked up 4,737 hours of overtime pay between January and July looking through the DOJ's evidence on Epstein.

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Did stinky's Special Redaction Project erase all mentions of Katie Johnson?

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-11-27 12:49 AM

imo, it is not only about the cost.

For me, what tasks were those FBI agents pulled away from?

What protections did the FBI not provide while the gents were on this task?

And what, exactly, was the task they were assigned to do? Has there been an official explanation?



#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-27 11:45 PM

@#2

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#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-27 11:47 PM

A million bucks to "go over" that stuff? If only I'd known ...
~ Rose Mary Woods

#4 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-11-28 05:56 AM

Somebody owns a lot of Sharpie stock.

#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-11-28 12:26 PM

imo, it is not only about the cost.

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-27 11:45 PM | Reply

It's definitely about the costs. It's not that expensive to do a Find & Replace on the words "Donald" and "Trump".

#6 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-11-28 12:54 PM

So, unlike the military the FBI apparently regard no Constitutional law regulating their performance of unlawful acts.

#7 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-11-28 01:42 PM

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#8 | Posted by homerj at 2025-11-28 07:38 PM

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#9 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-11-29 06:19 AM

www.congress.gov

fda-will-take-55-years-to-answer-foia-on-vaccine-approval-data

The cost is the number of people being paid to review.

The CDC claimed they had 10 employees and would take 55 years.

The cost? 10 got employees,x 55 years.

This is chump change.

#10 | Posted by Petrous at 2025-11-29 11:03 AM

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