Last spring, it was rumored that FBI agents were trained to delete parts of Epstein's files before they were released to the public. On Sunday, agency officials admitted to the plan.
It took independent journalist and award-winning podcaster Allison Gill a year, a Freedom of Information Act request, and a subsequent lawsuit against the government to obtain evidence showing that the FBI had specifically trained its investigators to purge Epstein’s files. On Sunday, Gill received a stunning admission from the FBI confirming that it all actually happened.
Multiple federal agents from both the FBI and the Justice Department have reported their involvement in the censorship effort. They describe how they were sometimes locked in the building for 24- or 48-hour shifts to review hundreds of thousands of files, videos, and photos related to Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking ring. One of the things the agents were reportedly ordered to delete was references to Donald Trump's name.
“They confided in me that there was a Powerpoint with embedded training videos, giving them instructions on how to find, record and delete Donald Trump’s name and other information,” Gill said in a video.
The FBI’s Information Management Division was primarily tasked with document censorship, despite the fact that the unit has not historically been used to search for documents for publication. So the FBI had to create specialized training videos for agents, instructing them on how to “use an Excel spreadsheet to record Donald Trump’s name, the page number, and the document they found,” Gill said.
Still, Trump was mentioned more than 38.000 times in the initial release of the Epstein files. His name also appeared on an FBI fact sheet listing allegations of abuse.
Although the press releases will range from very select to rare, I said I'd pass...because sometimes the editors hide.
