A new investigation examining emails sent between federal investigators and prosecutors has raised fresh doubts over the Department of Justice’s claim that it has released the full cache of Jeffrey Epstein files, suggesting the material made public amounts to just 2% of the data gathered by federal agents.

Channel 4 News reported that internal emails seen by its journalists show federal investigators expected to process between 20 and 40 terabytes of data seized from Epstein’s properties, including his Florida mansion, New York townhouse, and private island.

The broadcaster added that emails between investigators discussed the data “totaling” up to 50 terabytes from the “earliest stages” in June 2020.

In another internal email from 2025, the report continued, officials said that they were “looking at approximately 14.6 terabytes of archived data.”

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    I think they’ve only released the least damaging actual “documents/files”

    They are holding the ones that outright depict powerful men and women abusing their power. (Yes even sexually.) and also holding things like videos and auto “files” 14 terabytes of data isn’t just emails and forms. There’s probably evidence in there so damaging Trump and anyone else involved would be shot on the Whitehouse steps if any rational person knew the truth.

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    She was hired to lie by a liar, felon and pedophile, (yeah, type “liar, felon and pedophile” into your search engine of choice except, of course, Google). Type “a liar, felon and pedophile walk int a bar”, too.

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      lol, switched from DDG -> worked, to Bing -> worked, to Google - > No results, to Perplexity -> that sounds like the start of an edgy joke, want me to help you keep it clean.

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    So what’s the possibility that they can delete all the files so that the next administration doesn’t have them? Is it possible at all?

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      It’s possible, but not probable since I’m sure someone made a backup for that reason alone.

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      Wealth privilege won’t end until legal disprivilege ends. You need a legal system that isn’t susceptible to discrimination based on wealth, race, or any other factor. Especially not any other factor, because wealth transfers to whatever incentives it’s needed to take form in. It should be incentivized by cultural virtues, ensuring the government heeds the public’s beliefs on right and wrong doing.

      A coop-based executive branch might be worth your consideration. But, that sounds like a state-tolerated militia (in a way). Perhaps, more precisely, it should be a coop-based executive-executor branch. Effectively, a group of people motivated by civil virtues who spend time investigating and prosecuting actors in the government’s executive branch for the crime of discrimination, bias, bigotry, … can this be a path forward?

      Again, it would need be a coop. It must have the interest of the public, in contrast to the interest of the government, in mind. You will and should expect to see stories about them causing trouble for the government—the government shouldn’t like them. But the government should somehow be forced to tolerate them, even work with them in cases where the government would likely wish not to.

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    They have released alllllll the files…that they can get away with releasing.
    If we release every single thing then the world see just how depraved the obese orange paedo really is.

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    A lot of the data is composed of child abuse videos though, not evidence the videos existed, the videos themselves, so in that regard I do expect and hope they’re never publicly released.

    But yes, of course, everything else was withheld or censored just to protect the abusers, and those do need to come out, we just don’t know the exact ratio or numbers as being shared by this article.

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      If the elites are in these videos they need to be released. People need to see these people doing the crimes to fully wake up no matter how horrible that is. It’s the only way the victims will have a chance of justice sadly.

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        You’re defending the release and that “people need to see” videos of children being raped? Are you clinically insane? No, nobody needs to see anything, and the victim’s suffering aren’t a stage for your vengeance.

        The fact they’re confirmed to exist, audited by closed door experts and trialed through a legal system is all that would suffice in a working society. Now, is the US a good example of a functional country? No, not at all, but “releasing the videos” does nothing.

        Again, we already know they’re pedophiles, releasing the names is enough, you don’t need to watch the actual videos. If people aren’t revolting now, it’s not from a lack of explicit CSAM recordings.

        It’s bizarre I even have to explain this.

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          Most of the people on this platform don’t, but given the continued inaction, lack of accountability, and even defense of those accused, it seems we need something to shock the system. The current level of moral outrage is not high enough or universal enough to break past the walls of power.

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            The current level of moral outrage is not high enough or universal enough to break past the walls of power.

            And your proposed solution is releasing terabytes of child rape online for the masses?

            Please, never become a candidate for any position where you have any decision making responsibility whatsoever, in your life.

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            Agreed. But considering how that was my point from the very start, I’m unsure what you’d expect me to reply to that.

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              Your original comment said you hope they never get released. I am saying redact the CSAM and release them. If that’s what you meant originally, then it’s certainly not clear.

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                Your original comment said you hope they never get released.

                In direct reference to “terabytes of child abuse videos” yes, I hope they never get released. This is different than “show the faces and names of the criminals”. Not sure how one could struggle with such a simple sentence.

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          Nothing else seems to be able to pierce the MAGA bubble. This is obviously the psychological nuclear option. It’s not a good option. Do you have any proposals on what else might work to get through?

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              Hey friend, the rebellion is happening and it’s focused on peaceful means as a priority. Minneapolis has been leading the way here.

              If you’re not from American you should probably shut up. The system here is clearly in trouble but it’s not over yet.

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                Kadu is not American. He just wrote:

                I never been to the US, luckily

                But here he openly mischaracterizes your desire to see the video evidence released as equivalent to wanting to see it released UNREDACTED, swirls it around with other non sequiturs and imagined bullshit, then tops it with how Americans

                should be in the streets with a gun in hand <-- that’s the payload

                and of course the evergreen

                wake the fuck up

                They never change, lol.

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                If you’re not from American you should probably shut up.

                You’re commenting that you want terabytes of child porn published for the public, and doubling down that this is “the only way”.

                Me? Shut up?

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                  I’m not doubling down, I’m asking you if you have better ideas. But you’re stuck in your rage.

                  Can you try something else? I don’t think this is the only way, and I’d love to hear other opinions not just reactions.

                  I’m telling you to shut up about encouraging violence as the only option.

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      We run into a lot of trust problems that are not going to be solved here. There are likely hundreds of people Jeffrey and Ghislaine didn’t write down but know are on video. And it’s the CIA and Mossad blackmailing world leaders. I can’t even think of a country to attempt the investigation

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        didn’t write down but know are on video

        Investigators need to see them, not you. And even if you did, the fuck are you going to do about it? And if you’re going to do something, why are you waiting for child abuse videos instead of doing it now?

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          I am a different person. For the record, I don’t condone making the uncensored videos public either.

          Investigators need to see them

          The ones at the DOJ, which is led by a corrupt loyalist?
          The ones at the FBI, which is led by a different corrupt loyalist?

          The public doesn’t need to see them, but investigators won’t do shit if/when they see them.

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            The ones at the DOJ, which is led by a corrupt loyalist?The ones at the FBI, which is led by a different corrupt loyalist?

            That part is the part I agree is the real issue that must be urgently addressed, yes. The release of the raw videos is not and will never be the path. We don’t disagree here.

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          You misunderstand. The current investors can’t be trusted and this conspiracy is so far reaching it’s hard to think of anyone who could. That’s the root issue and I don’t have a solution.