The files are made up of papers, videos, photographs and audio files that live within the FBI’s main electronic case management system and largely originate from the FBI’s two major investigations into Epstein, in Florida and New York, spanning decades. A July 2025 FBI memo said that the department had uncovered “more than 300 gigabytes of data and physical evidence” during a review of the investigative materials.

“This work has required and will continue to require substantial Department resources,” the Justice Department wrote to the judge in the Monday court filing.

“We noted in our prior letter the hundreds of attorneys dedicated to the review at the time of that letter. Currently, and anticipated for the next few weeks ahead, in the range of over 400 lawyers across the Department will dedicate all or a substantial portion of their workday to the Department’s efforts to comply with the Act.”

Trump appointees at the Justice Department have said they’re acting in good faith to release as much material as fast as possible, while also going through the painstaking work of reviewing every file to make sure victims’ identifies are shielded, as required by the law.

In a letter to Congress released on December 19, Blanche said the department was working “diligently” to meet the deadline but that the “volume of materials” meant it “must publicly produce responsive documents on a rolling basis.”

The Justice Department announced in late December that there were more than a million more newly discovered documents potentially related to Epstein – and that they would take “weeks” to review and release them.

And as CNN previously reported, the Justice Department’s leadership also asked career prosecutors in Florida to volunteer over the the holidays to help redact the documents.

Not sure how anyone expected the FBI to review 2 million documents in a month without needing to cease all other operations or something.
Maybe congress should have allocated funds for it.

>>1472676
One, not the FBI, the DOJ.

Two, they had several months back when they weren't pretending the files didn't exist.

>>1472677
>spanning decades

>>1472678
Stop pretending like this is a logistics issue. They already have been caught, several times even, redacting people who aren't victims. This is purely to cover up for pedophiles.

>>1472671
Everyone who keeps these files from us and the pedophiles inside need to be jailed or executed. I'm sick and tired of my government protecting pedophiles.

>>1472676
Kill yourself, pedo defending shit stain piece of inhuman garbage. You're not welcome here or anywhere.

Release ALL of the Epstein files uncensored. And so what if the Republicans are destroyed?

>>1472677
Ok cool, the doj. Point stands, this needed funding if they expected anyone to meet the 30 day requirement to review several million documents without grinding the rest of their operations to a halt.

>>1472695
So far it looks like more democrats have been in the files
I hope you're not a fan of Noam Chomsky or Larry Summers.

>>1472716
Ok why is zognald protecting the clintons and other democrats then (rhetorical question, he is the uber-golem)

>>1472722
For the same reason Biden protected the pedo republicans by not releasing the files over the last 4 years he was president?

>>1472708
>this needed funding if they expected anyone to meet the 30 day requirement
The DoJ had been on notice that the bill was going to be passed for fucking months. Shut the fuck up.

Also the only reason it's taking this long is they're censoring the everloving fuck out of it illegally.

>>1472726
You already know Biden couldn't release the files. Presidents don't have universal powers like you and Trump seem to think.

Good thing their redaction is shit! I worry that they may have learned from the last release but then again government employees aren't known for being competent.

>>1472752
>You already know Biden couldn't release the files
He could have ordered the files released. That was only grand jury material that had to remain sealed.

The issue is the investigation was still ongoing under Wray's FBI, so that would have been seen as an inappropriate abuse of power done for political reasons. You don't open files attached to active investigations. Patel closed the investigation. At least until he opened it again right before the records were going to be ordered released so that they could justify holding shit back.

>>1472840
>He could have ordered the files released.
Did you miss the part where Trump ordered their release and it didn't do jack shit? Did you miss that it took an act of Congress to actually release them?

>>1472749
>The DoJ had been on notice that the bill was going to be passed for fucking months.
Anon, I know numbers, budgets, and overall math are difficult for your lefties as youve never managed any wealth greater than your latest fix of fentanyl

2000000 million docs over 31 days is 65000 documents daily... Let's say they average 10 pages each, that's 650000 pages of legal documents to review

The doj has a total workforce of 115000 including every attorney, manager, clerk, janitor, grounds keeper, hr, payroll, bi, mail room employee etc...

How the fuck do you or anyone expect this group of people to process this much information in 30 days without additional staffing or funding to make the goal, or otherwise causing the entire department to grind to a complete halt?

You fucking retarded faggot, try thinking for once instead of knee jerking yourself into an impotent rage as you yell at clouds demanding an answer as to why the impossible did not come to be

>>1472843
So why didn't Biden order their release, and then the Congress under Biden passes an act to actually release them?
1 year ago Biden was still president. We could have done this whole song and dance during the last 4 years. Even during COVID 19

>>1472752
Apparently they do though, when they are the chosen golem. They can even ignore court orders to release documents

>>1472878
ask chatGPT retard

All Trump had to say was that Biden had destroyed the Epstein Files, and the Republicans would have come out of this smelling of roses. It was THAT easy. But no. Instead, the Epstein Files scandal was a septic tank that exploded all over them, and they're never getting rid of the smell of pedophilia that's infected them but as the GOP: Gang of Pedophiles refuse to make child marriages illegal in certain states, they always have been way before all of this
It's not just 1472726 that never thought of this.
Oh, and I don't care about who's in the files: all those - including Democrats - named in such deserve to have the book thrown at them. I'm sure you'll want all those Republicans named in those Files to have the book thrown at them too, 1472716. Everyone else can come to their own conclusions about you if you don't want Republicans named in those Files to have the book thrown at them.

>>1472843
>Did you miss the part where Trump ordered their release and it didn't do jack shit?
Trump ordered the grand jury materials released. That shit was illegal.

He didn't order the shit he actually had the power to release released. Almost like he didn't want anything released or something.

>>1472863
>Let's say they average 10 pages each
1. Stop pulling shit out of your ass.
2. They can automate finding victim names (literally just use the search function of the program they're using for this shit). Numbers can be manually reviewed for potential Socials and shit that need to be censored, but you can automate finding the numbers, too. The shit that would take a while is photos, but that's not a bulk of the documents.

Or put another way, they literally don't even need to fucking look at most of these fucking docs or most of the content of the docs they do need to look at.

>>1472964
>Trump ordered the grand jury materials released.
But his order was laughed at by a judge and nothing happened until Congress got involved.

>>1472934
No one gives a shit about that anymore. Democrats have a dozen other current thing scandals they have to do damage control for. Try again in 2029

>>1472983
Keep telling yourself that.

>>1472967
>They can automate finding victim names
Who's going to develop the software? Who's going to test it? Who's going to verify it works on 2 million documents?
Do they work for free?

As proved late last year in Miami now with a mayor with the letter '(D)' after their name, Republican voters don't give a shit about that orange subhuman anymore. Said orange thing & co. have a dozen other thing scandals they have to do damage control over for and will fail: as proved in Miami recently. The main thing that'll ensure Democrats win this year can be summed up in one word: Affordability. Just ask Miami's new mayor.
Try again in 2032.

>>1472994
ahh, the "i'm retarded" defense. a classic method there, shill

>>1472967
I honestly don't even know why I'm pointing out your stupidity, it's obvious youve never held a job with any responsibility greater than managing your local bar or leading a sandwich team at Subway or something.

2,000,000 legal documents, many of which are photocopies of documents (eg image files) and not PDF or text files, are not easy to process in their totality given 31 days notice by pretty much any organization without either reassigning staff from ongoing operations or forking out the job to a consultancy.

That shit costs capital and human resources, things that you clearly have never had any significant responsibility or experiencing managing ever in your life

>No one gives a shit about that anymore
>saying anything other than 'I want all Republicans mentioned in the Epstein Files to have the book thrown at them'
I want all Democrats named in the Epstein Files to have the book thrown at them.
Come to your own conclusions about 1472983, /news/.

>>1472968
>But his order was laughed at by a judge and nothing happened until Congress got involved
Yes, I know, dumbfuck. And Trump knew that shit would happen because it was the fucking law.

The docs coming out aren't all or even mostly grand jury records. That's the fucking point. Trump could have released all the rest of this bullshit at any point.

>>1473004
>are not easy to process in their totality given 31 days notice by pretty much any organization without either reassigning staff from ongoing operations
So...a normal thing they could do and in fact were required to do by law?

>2,000,000 legal documents, many of which are photocopies of documents (eg image files)
Which is fucking irrelevant because they were required to convert the documents into searchable formats under the law too. They didn't have to keep them as is. Converting the docs might take time, but not much fucking manpower.

By the way, most of these documents would have already been converted to a searchable format from the months long review the DoJ undertook to censor Trump's name in this shit last year, a thing they already fucking reassigned a ton of agents for. Transitioning those agents into preparing the docs for release would have been fucking simple.

You're bitching about a more than large enough work force being given a job they are paid to fucking do. This is like acting incredulous that the US military be expected to fight a war and then bitching about how much money and manpower that shit takes.

The government has the manpower for this shit even before taking into account all the automated systems that manpower is trained on to make this shit easier. Your average FBI agent or DoJ lawyer knows how to turn a bunch of fucking scanned documents into PDFs, dipshit.

>>1473038
>And Trump knew that shit would happen
Ahh so this was one of the 4D chess moves I've heard so much about.

>>1473085
Grand jury records being sealed is explicit on the books law. Them losing in court on that shit was not a surprise. And it's only 4D chess for dipshits dumb enough to be fooled by it. From my perspective it's just a flailing attempt at feigning powerlessness/ignorance. Like when politicians say they haven't heard the biggest news story of the day so they aren't in a position to respond.

>>1473125
It's more like the crazy ideologue yes men Trump surrounds himself with told him that unitary executive privilege means he can do anything he wants and he believed them. He also tries to do clearly illegal things like appoint unqualified insurance lawyers as US attorneys, pardon people in state prisons, and deport naturalized citizens, among other things. He's clearly getting bad legal advice.

>>1473038
>Which is fucking irrelevant because they were required to convert the documents into searchable formats under the law too.
NTA but please stop being retarded.
Epstein was active and known about before the dotcom boom. There isn't a single thumb drive filled with all existing documents somewhere. They're in paper form, scattered across the eastern seaboard between various state and federal law enforcement offices.

>>1472716
Okay???? Trump's still all over them anyway.

>>1473235
>They're in paper form
No. They aren't, dipshit. The feds scan papers they seize. You think FBI agents are looking over the original copies of documents in cases they work?

Maybe stop worrying about my intelligence and start worrying about your own.

>>1473216
That'd be an argument if he tried to release *all* the Epstein docs and got stopped by a court, but he didn't. He specifically "tried" to release the ones he knew a court would stop him from releasing and fuck all else.

The advise wasn't bad. It was just specifically designed to fool rubes.

>>1473369
>You think FBI agents are looking over the original copies of documents in cases they work?
They're looking for any documents at all you stupid faggot. This includes digging through file rooms from thirty years ago.
Put a fork in yourself, you're done.

>>1473381
>This includes digging through file rooms from thirty years ago.
1. The FBI didn't open an investigation into Epstein until 2005.
2. The FBI had scanners 30 years ago.
3. Anything relevant would have been scanned over the course of the multiple years long investigations between 30 years ago and now. The FBI isn't running around using bug eaten archival copies of evidence, dipshit.
4. Why stop at 30 years ago if you're gonna talk nonsense? Why not say they're searching every document in government custody for any mention of Epstein going back to his conception?

>Put a fork in yourself, you're done.
Nah, you need that fork for the crow.

>>1473394
>The FBI didn't open an investigation into Epstein until 2005.
Maria Farmer approached the FBI and filed a report in the 1990's. Epstein was also working as the dark money guy for the CIA since the 80's, funneling cash to terrorist orgs and starting revolutions in foreign states. And that's only the information the public knows from piecing together a massive paper trail implicating numerous intelligence agencies.
>The FBI isn't running around using bug eaten archival copies of evidence, dipshit.
Yes retard, because that's how documents were stored before you were a twinkle in your father's eye.

>>1472671
Tired and board. At least get rid of non whites if you're not going to execute pedos.

>>1473004
Good post

>>1473407
So the FBI kept important documents around for 30 years but never scanned them for redundancy and convenience, and they're centered around a guy who would keep getting investigated throughout those 30 years?

Also it hasn't been 31 days, it's been a year since the administration who promised to release the Epstein files during campaigning have taken office.

I think you don't really know how most of those documents are kept, you're just inventing convenient excuses for why these documents haven't been released yet.

>>1472708
I'm actually curious if far right conservatives just run everything they want to say through chat GPT to come up with the excuses they can to justify the fact this is a cover up for the pedophile trump.

>>1473407
>Maria Farmer approached the FBI and filed a report in the 1990's.
Which did not generate a fucking investigation. What the fuck is your point?
>Yes retard, because that's how documents were stored before you were a twinkle in your father's eye.
Key word being *were*. Bitch, the FBI has been digitizing its shit for decades. Here's an article from fucking 2004 talking about how their digitization team knocked out 3000000 docs for a high priority counterintelligence case.
>https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/stories/2004/march/doclab_033004
>Took more than three million paper records in poor condition and quickly scanned them for a significant counterintelligence case; and
Last I checked 3000000>2000000.

Your brain is stuck in 1995.

>>1472671
the epstein files are the hunter biden dick pics for libtards
>no mames guey trump should be in prison for having sex with legal age women o algo

>>1473553
Yeah right that's why Trump campaigned on releasing the files and then backtracked saying it was a fake democrat hoax and then backtracked again and ordered their release.

>>1473553
>migatard is a third world shill account who supports the jewish mafia
Many such cases

>>1473562
How did Trump campaign on releasing the Epstein files?
Was it in project 2025? Did you hear about him talking about it on the campaign trail? I honestly didn't think you were listening to Trump speeches, so how do you know?

>>1474289
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOXCLUknJ7U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHVnOMjJjsA

>>1474323
Thanks I don't watch Hannity I am under the age of 75

>>1474596
Also you don't speak russian