Another eff-up of the FBI: They blocked searches for "Trump" on the redacted documents. If you search just 'Trump' you will get zero returns. But if you search 'Trump_' (Trump + space bar) you will get 615 returns. Just because it's redacted or blacked out doesn't mean it can't be searched. You just can't read it until you copy and paste it as plain text.
I choose to believe that at least some of this is weaponized incompetence by people who wanted things released in full. But I'm sure some is just people not knowing what they're doing, especially the doomer boomers in charge.
I said this in another thread. This has been a known weakness of adobe for many years, the people doing this absolutely knew the right way to redact documents. This is an act of resistance.
I keep seeing reddit snippets.. just like this.. but its like we all repeating headlines and comments w no actually saying what those hidden characters say lol
This may eventually get them off the hook. It WAS released, UNredacted (if you know the copy paste trick) and fully searchable (if you know the search trick)
Yes this is the kind of "just doing my job" I can get behind. If all the people with integrity leave, those without it run everything. We need people with a shred of integrity to stick around and gum up the works.
This was likely pure malicious compliance. Weiss likely had no idea the contract with the Canadian network existed and no one who did know felt it was necessary to tell her...
Unrelated, but a lot of the FBI agents were reassigned to... ICE raids. In my headcanon, a nontrivial number of those agents remember their oaths to protect the constitution and are documenting all the bullshit they observe. Come 2028, they'll be coming to the new head of the DOJ with detailed files for prosecution.
Again, this is just what I hope is happening.
They fired the actual FBI bosses. The FBI hasn't had a 100% personnel turnover under this administration. The lower you go down the chain of command, for example low enough to be doing grunt work on the agency's website, the more likely they are to still be the same people who have been doing the job for a while.
I’m guessing incompetence, we’ve been let down too many times by the alleged Adults in the Room that I can’t believe someone is going to do the right thing
You might be surprised how often that trick works. They use a fancy pdf editor, sometimes the redactions go away when switching to a cheap one, or vice versa. If you run your redactions inherent to your reader software and then click save, don't trust it. Press print, save as pdf as a new document, and then check it again. The fancy Adobe Acrobat DC, and its massive price tag lulls people into a false sense of security, and that software is NOT user friendly or intuitive.
Governments do not actually train their people to do this. Don’t ask me how I know.
Former Legal IT specialist here. Yeah, always print your files to pdf if you want to ensure the meta data is gone. Don't convert it, that can carry some over.
Nobody at the FBI will ever rebel, that organisation exists to gather blackmail and cover up politicians crimes since it’s inception. It’s your basic garden variety incompetence.
Malicious compliance is potentially doing a lot of work here. Career professional asks which method to use and provides multiple pages of explanation for each one knowing the imbecile at the top won't read any of it and pick the first one because it's the quickest.
Exactly this way. Someone who was on top of things downloaded the batch and is sitting in their basement right now un-redacting the lot. It will take time but someone will do it
Doesn't matter though. Because if anyone outside of the actual DOJ was able to get their hands on the unredacted documents, MAGA will just say it's fake.
I just gave it a shot and it doesnt seem to actually work. At least not for the 20 or so random files I tried it for.
Also all my GET requests suddenly 401'd when searching for Trump, but they worked fine before that...
A man came up to me the other day with tears in his eyes and said “sir you’re the most treasonous president to have ever existed in the history of any president in the world”
I hope that before someone put this information out into the world, they captured all the redacted info before tipping off the FBI to pull it all down.
Whelp we better hope there’s some really good evidence they can un-redact because they won’t be releasing any new files anytime soon now that they know they messed up bad on this batch.
That doesn’t look like ineptitude. That looks like a purposeful programming. That looks like resistance from with in. That looks like good people doing their best to “leak” the Epstein files.
He literally is. If trump were smart and not too old to do it he'd have gotten america permanently conquered by now. This is a pure loss condition for the usa and it is only incompetence thay saves us. A blessing to be sure, if we can stop voters from choosing this again.
I did a computer security evaluation a few years ago. I asked for a list of AD domain computers and they gave me a spreadsheet which had a “Password” column. All the cells in the column were black background. I selected all of them and changed the background to white and guess what I had?
So DOGE took away the pro features of pdf editor software licenses that would actually redact? Sounds like they just gave black text and black background as the workaround.
Right? Folks legit think Twitter is the extent of activism or validation and they share everything. If they knew that why wouldn't they just do that and at least share the results?
Haha, but wait, waIt... for real, is this like a metaphor for the incompetence of the American government? Please tell me this isn't for real! I will be first to volunteer for the execution firing squad, but I can not believe this is true! How is it possible for the leadership of USA to be this stupid?
I'm just really glad that we're in the Mel Brook's Handmaid's Tale parody, rather than the real Handmaid's Tale timeline. Harvey Korman and Madeline Kahn would fit right in with these guys.
Well, their characters would.
It could he people actively resisting by being as ineffective as possible. Maybe theyre stupid, maybe there are patriots consciously making these mistakes
Evidently, in a rush they could not find a better way to redact the files other than by highlighting in black the redacted portions; black highlighting on black text make it "unreadable" until you just C&P as "plain text only"... Very skilled FBI and Admin!
It’s true. You can do this to quite a few (not tons) of the docs. One of the redacted segments talked about how Epstein and his affiliated organizations would be instructed to destroy evidence or financially coerce victims or witnesses to not talk. Why tf would someone need to redact that if they aren’t trying to protect the co-conspirators
I think this could be patriotism desguised as incompetence.
If I was a proud american that is (or was) proud to serve a country and the rule of law, I'd try to sabotage this corrupt pedo government from the inside.
Decent, skilled, capable people are too intelligent and too moral to work for such a regime, so the people who do end up in positions of power are imbeciles, incompetent, lack basic moral and ethical judgment, and they continually make mistakes that capable people wouldn't.
You also have thousands of people below them who are career professionals.
They know what they're doing and can manipulate the leadership.
I imagine some career professional sent an email saying "what method do you want us to use?" and gave them a list with a 5-page explanation for each one, knowing the imbecile wouldn't read it and just pick the first one :)
Hence, malicious compliance leads the charge and the dictator’s imbeciles are left looking ridiculous, again.
Am I falling for BS here? Why hasn’t any journalist done this and printed the docs? Yes, there ARE still some people and outlets covering this that aren’t compromised.
I never thought I'd be so glad for an incompetent government, but when what they're TRYING to do is illegal, bigoted, and corrupt, I guess the incompetence is a blessing.
I would love to see them scrambling now to go back through alllllll those thousands of redactions to try and fix this considering how long it took them in the first place!
Coffeezilla also had a video just out showing how there was one more batch of files that wasnt released. They have redactions but mention ten coconspirators. Wexler of Victoria's secret is one. The others arent clear. They didnt release this set of files but it was found on an unsecured url.
They said there were no co conspirators. And that Ghislaine Maxwell was trafficking to just epstein. Fucking the lazy eyed FBI head kash patel lied in front of congress about it.
Or maybe, someone has the competence and the integrity to do it on purpose. just a little bit of hope that not all those involved in the redaction process are Trump cultists.
Would be amazing if someone spamed every corner of the internet with the documents unredacted, but then again even if you only had the victims names redacted people would still claim your hidding truth.
Many people use the highlight tool in Adobe to redact documents where you use black as the color rather than bright yellow. Adobe warns you that the document is still searchable even after using black to cover everything. You have to use the redact tool (which is an upgraded version of Adobe) to actually redact information, and the document must be secured to prevent searches. Guess the DOJ is using the free version of Adobe.
I have to believe that there must be a few competent longterm employees at the FBI who recognized this issue, but just let it happen ("malicious compliance") instead of alerting the craven Maga hacks in their leadership.
After all, how many thousands of hours did agents spend working on this? They can't all be this stupid.
Another eff-up of the FBI: They blocked searches for "Trump" on the redacted documents. If you search just 'Trump' you will get zero returns. But if you search 'Trump_' (Trump + space bar) you will get 615 returns. Just because it's redacted or blacked out doesn't mean it can't be searched. You just can't read it until you copy and paste it as plain text.
615, eh? And that's just with a space added. We got him now.
https://i.redd.it/6k5ptg8f6w8g1.gif
I was about to steal that meme when I realized that I live in Montréal, not Toronto :(
Same but, Vancouver
THANK YOU, Canada!
https://archive.org/details/60minutes-cecotsegment
OMG, is that James Angel?!
Imagine how many hits we'll get when we add an S to that bitch!
🤣🤣🤣
Right. Doesn't even include "Trump's" or his first name or any of the pet names these pedo frat boys gave each other.
But is anything going to actually happen? I doubt it.
615 on the first page?
I choose to believe that at least some of this is weaponized incompetence by people who wanted things released in full. But I'm sure some is just people not knowing what they're doing, especially the doomer boomers in charge.
I said this in another thread. This has been a known weakness of adobe for many years, the people doing this absolutely knew the right way to redact documents. This is an act of resistance.
https://i.redd.it/3a9tkr9ntv8g1.gif
@Liam on twitter
Hope you downloaded it all first !!!!
I keep seeing reddit snippets.. just like this.. but its like we all repeating headlines and comments w no actually saying what those hidden characters say lol
Trump + . Will likely yield even more
"eff-up"
Or genious move by non-pdf FBI agents..? :)
So technically, you can search for 'all' the words, get a return for each word, and with the help of an AI you could stitch up the whole document?
better yet, you can just highlight and copy the whole doc and paste it into a wordpad and read it (the black bars go away)
Trump without spaces worked fine for me like 2 days ago
Can you post a screen of this?
What about "rump" can you search just that?
Given the nature of the crimes, you may end up regretting that search term.
This may eventually get them off the hook. It WAS released, UNredacted (if you know the copy paste trick) and fully searchable (if you know the search trick)
Fuckin lol
It won't, the intent to commit a crime is present, just because they weren't competent enough to do it successfully doesn't result in innocence.
I wonder how much of it is incompetence, and how much of it is FBI agents who know what their job really is and are quietly rebelling.
They fired all the actual FBI agents and replaced them with sycophants. It’s most likely actual incompetence.
A lot agents hate what they are doing but need the job so they follow orders. Malicious compliance is possible.
Yes this is the kind of "just doing my job" I can get behind. If all the people with integrity leave, those without it run everything. We need people with a shred of integrity to stick around and gum up the works.
I say this every time I hear about someone resigning instead of sabotaging the hell out of everything until they get fired.
Yes!! It’s so frustrating don’t leave on principle we need you!!
I feel like the cbs cecot segment was exactly this
Oh we weren’t supposed to release that for Canada? Oh well
This was likely pure malicious compliance. Weiss likely had no idea the contract with the Canadian network existed and no one who did know felt it was necessary to tell her...
Unrelated, but a lot of the FBI agents were reassigned to... ICE raids. In my headcanon, a nontrivial number of those agents remember their oaths to protect the constitution and are documenting all the bullshit they observe. Come 2028, they'll be coming to the new head of the DOJ with detailed files for prosecution.
Again, this is just what I hope is happening.
They fired the actual FBI bosses. The FBI hasn't had a 100% personnel turnover under this administration. The lower you go down the chain of command, for example low enough to be doing grunt work on the agency's website, the more likely they are to still be the same people who have been doing the job for a while.
I’m guessing incompetence, we’ve been let down too many times by the alleged Adults in the Room that I can’t believe someone is going to do the right thing
Former criminal defense attorney here:
You might be surprised how often that trick works. They use a fancy pdf editor, sometimes the redactions go away when switching to a cheap one, or vice versa. If you run your redactions inherent to your reader software and then click save, don't trust it. Press print, save as pdf as a new document, and then check it again. The fancy Adobe Acrobat DC, and its massive price tag lulls people into a false sense of security, and that software is NOT user friendly or intuitive.
Governments do not actually train their people to do this. Don’t ask me how I know.
Former Legal IT specialist here. Yeah, always print your files to pdf if you want to ensure the meta data is gone. Don't convert it, that can carry some over.
“Let’s just use black font with black background. It’ll look redacted anyway”
Or part of the plan
Id love to think a vigilante FBI agent purposely mishandled this to let the truth out.
I would too , but this isnt a movie unfortunately
It's a little important to understand why an FBI agent is an FBI agent.
I would suspect a lot of them seriously, seriously hate where they are right now.
Hope so , but to be in a position of such matters at this point While I hope I am wrong it's going to be a yes man
I just asked Google "Number of FBI employees"
It came back ABOUT THIRTY EIGHT THOUSAND.
I'm pretty sure that a super great portion of those were hired well before Trump's second term, and a lot were hired even before Trump's first term.
A lot of them almost certainly seriously loathe what's going on right now.
I suspect more than a few would like several unsupervised minutes, alone, with Pam Bondi.
Are you sure? I mean, can you double check or something?
The main player is the star of a reality show, so....
It's honestly all way too insane to be believable as a movie.
It is, however, a parallel dimension we were shunted into when they first started the large hadron collider.
If true, I bet Kash Patel is giving him the old stinkeye. 😳
Is that what the other eye is doing?
Quiet quitters!
Nobody at the FBI will ever rebel, that organisation exists to gather blackmail and cover up politicians crimes since it’s inception. It’s your basic garden variety incompetence.
It's probably someone that leaked the documents on purpose but hiding it under incompetence.
Malicious compliance is potentially doing a lot of work here. Career professional asks which method to use and provides multiple pages of explanation for each one knowing the imbecile at the top won't read any of it and pick the first one because it's the quickest.
Someone could do this and release the unredacted!
Oh I’m sure someone out there is on top of that
I hope so. I don't know how
Exactly this way. Someone who was on top of things downloaded the batch and is sitting in their basement right now un-redacting the lot. It will take time but someone will do it
Bless them
May the nuggies flow like the buffalo
Whoever reads this and does this, thank you for your service! We believe in you!
Doesn't matter though. Because if anyone outside of the actual DOJ was able to get their hands on the unredacted documents, MAGA will just say it's fake.
Bystander effect
I just gave it a shot and it doesnt seem to actually work. At least not for the 20 or so random files I tried it for.Also all my GET requests suddenly 401'd when searching for Trump, but they worked fine before that...
https://www.justice.gov/multimedia-search?keys=trump&page=1
edit:
Oh my. It does definitely work on some of the court files.
Someone said search for "Trump " (Trump followed by a space).
Wonder if Trump. (With period) Could get a few more too
I think when a period comes into play they are too old for the pedo
Ok, its a clever comment but I still hate it. Take my upvote.
They have been infiltrated
I cut and pasted that and then followed instructions according to the title and this is what came up as a result:
Wow. It works!
Many people are saying this
A man came up to me the other day with tears in his eyes and said “sir you’re the most treasonous president to have ever existed in the history of any president in the world”
So they didn't redact... They just used the highlight feature and set it to black? God damn.
This person posted no proof
Elsewhere in the thread someone tried it. It's not uniform, but they said it works for some docs
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgressiveHQ/s/SFG78ysZmG
Of course they didn't post screenshots either, but they linked to where the documents are to try for ourselves.
Maybe we should keep that on the low…
I don’t think it’s incompetence, I think there are warriors on the inside.
I've been wondering where tf they were
Archive (dot) org and Wikileaks! Please do your thing!
Redactception....
I hope that before someone put this information out into the world, they captured all the redacted info before tipping off the FBI to pull it all down.
Where the fuck is Anonymous at rn?!
Still in their parents basements playing with masks
Whelp we better hope there’s some really good evidence they can un-redact because they won’t be releasing any new files anytime soon now that they know they messed up bad on this batch.
Please say someone downloaded them all before this gets to them!
Weird for Liam Nissan post that but not post a source or examples.
Right? I'm skeptical
Shhhhh! Don't interrupt an adversary while they are making an error.
Anything interesting in those?
Whatever happened to Anonymous? We need them...
That doesn’t look like ineptitude. That looks like a purposeful programming. That looks like resistance from with in. That looks like good people doing their best to “leak” the Epstein files.
Ok but we need proof of this before they patch the mistake
Go and test ? It's public data
He could be the next Hitler, but he’s too Fing stupid.
He literally is. If trump were smart and not too old to do it he'd have gotten america permanently conquered by now. This is a pure loss condition for the usa and it is only incompetence thay saves us. A blessing to be sure, if we can stop voters from choosing this again.
I did a computer security evaluation a few years ago. I asked for a list of AD domain computers and they gave me a spreadsheet which had a “Password” column. All the cells in the column were black background. I selected all of them and changed the background to white and guess what I had?
So DOGE took away the pro features of pdf editor software licenses that would actually redact? Sounds like they just gave black text and black background as the workaround.
SAVE EVERYTHING
Come on nerds of the world! Do it for us - decipher the files !
Isn't this the same fuck up as the last time they redacted shit?
Why would you post this?
Right? Folks legit think Twitter is the extent of activism or validation and they share everything. If they knew that why wouldn't they just do that and at least share the results?
Come on AI, here’s your time to shine
But AI is likely owned by the people involved in the Epstein files...
Probably more quiet rebels
Do not tell them.
I hope there is a team of people doing exactly that
Haha, but wait, waIt... for real, is this like a metaphor for the incompetence of the American government? Please tell me this isn't for real! I will be first to volunteer for the execution firing squad, but I can not believe this is true! How is it possible for the leadership of USA to be this stupid?
... didn't they already do this once?
Tell it to the world!
I wondered if something like this would happen but something told me they (fbi &doj) wouldn't be stupid enough to make a mistake like this.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
https://preview.redd.it/7wmq2csrov8g1.jpeg?width=929&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5c3d60b47ff1c32d3f4aa16deda02eb9ed55ed24
FBI what a bunch of LOSERS!
K, so someone’s gonna “unredact” it, right? If this is true and it’s just publicly available, SOMEONE has to compile everything
And what this trick is doing is revealing some disturbing stuff. As if we weren’t already nauseated by what was done to these young girls and boys.
This works.
Well, somebody post all the Trump stuff before they have a cyber incident and it’s all lost.
Sounds like they didn’t use he adobe security redact. Idiots.
I'm just really glad that we're in the Mel Brook's Handmaid's Tale parody, rather than the real Handmaid's Tale timeline. Harvey Korman and Madeline Kahn would fit right in with these guys.
Well, their characters would.
It could he people actively resisting by being as ineffective as possible. Maybe theyre stupid, maybe there are patriots consciously making these mistakes
Don't get distracted. I heard it only works for some documents. Maybe those are hand chosen to mislead the public.
Evidently, in a rush they could not find a better way to redact the files other than by highlighting in black the redacted portions; black highlighting on black text make it "unreadable" until you just C&P as "plain text only"... Very skilled FBI and Admin!
We can say incompetence but perhaps, there is a hero who said fuck it.
I love you notepad.
I hope people have the original release downloaded so they can unredact them before they can fix their mistake.
Can someone work on interacting the files
It’s true. You can do this to quite a few (not tons) of the docs. One of the redacted segments talked about how Epstein and his affiliated organizations would be instructed to destroy evidence or financially coerce victims or witnesses to not talk. Why tf would someone need to redact that if they aren’t trying to protect the co-conspirators
This is the funniest shit I've seen for days.
Thank you! For making my day
My understanding is documents redacted under the Biden administration were redacted properly.
The transition to the Trump administration has brought on enormous failures and this is just another
But hell yes! The drip drip drip continues
Oooh will someone please just do this asap and let us know
Can someone please create a file with all unredacted files in it and publish it?
The 1000 FBI agents who worked overtime to “redact” the files:
https://preview.redd.it/yftns78lqx8g1.jpeg?width=224&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=27b1be3573db084287314d21aca3d6eb521a81cf
I think this could be patriotism desguised as incompetence.
If I was a proud american that is (or was) proud to serve a country and the rule of law, I'd try to sabotage this corrupt pedo government from the inside.
Just another part of the "Dictator Trap".
Decent, skilled, capable people are too intelligent and too moral to work for such a regime, so the people who do end up in positions of power are imbeciles, incompetent, lack basic moral and ethical judgment, and they continually make mistakes that capable people wouldn't.
You also have thousands of people below them who are career professionals.
They know what they're doing and can manipulate the leadership.
I imagine some career professional sent an email saying "what method do you want us to use?" and gave them a list with a 5-page explanation for each one, knowing the imbecile wouldn't read it and just pick the first one :)
Hence, malicious compliance leads the charge and the dictator’s imbeciles are left looking ridiculous, again.
Dumbasses didn't Flatten that shit. Priceless
Give 'em just enough rope..
Then do the lords work and screen share post this!
Am I falling for BS here? Why hasn’t any journalist done this and printed the docs? Yes, there ARE still some people and outlets covering this that aren’t compromised.
Would be a shame if someone enterprising did away with all the redactions.
maybe it was on purpose. follow trump orders without following trumps orders.
Going to be a lot of lie detector tests taken this week. Ka$h going to be challenge coining everybody!
What? Black-on-black font colors aren't copy protected?
I never thought I'd be so glad for an incompetent government, but when what they're TRYING to do is illegal, bigoted, and corrupt, I guess the incompetence is a blessing.
As funny as this is, and as dumb as this administration is, this isnt the first time such shoddy censorship has been employed by government agencies.
This cant be real life?! Like wow
This is something to do before it’s broadcasted. If true, hopefully it was done already
What’s funny is that a warning pops up in adobe if you just highlight something black and tells you it’s not the same as redacting.
SWEET!
Big if true
https://i.redd.it/kfbwhvryzv8g1.gif
OK, show me
No way
I hope we find out the truth at some point. All these black pages are exhausting.
Where does one find these files? I asked the Jedi, but they wouldn't tell me.
I wonder if you could just unflatten it an remove the redactions with a pdf editor?
This tested. ? I assume news sources know about this
Now search for alllll the other billionaires, celebrities, and known creeps with power.
Fuck them, every single one.
Kash is gonna be unemployed.
CALLED IT four months ago!
Good release them files. Someone call anonymous too they’ve been quiet for a while
I would love to see them scrambling now to go back through alllllll those thousands of redactions to try and fix this considering how long it took them in the first place!
Coffeezilla also had a video just out showing how there was one more batch of files that wasnt released. They have redactions but mention ten coconspirators. Wexler of Victoria's secret is one. The others arent clear. They didnt release this set of files but it was found on an unsecured url.
https://youtu.be/R7i9KdVTFR4?si=Fze7VNki8pVocck7
They said there were no co conspirators. And that Ghislaine Maxwell was trafficking to just epstein. Fucking the lazy eyed FBI head kash patel lied in front of congress about it.
lol no way
One love 💗
Can someone make a set of refrigerator magnets with the various redacted phrases for us to rearrange while in the kitchen?
And you're welcome
It's a damning indictment of how atrocious US "journalism" is that not only did no journalist try this, but none of them are reporting on this.
Unredacting will be considered a federal crime.
Or maybe, someone has the competence and the integrity to do it on purpose. just a little bit of hope that not all those involved in the redaction process are Trump cultists.
300 comments and not a single person has been able to post proof. Seems like random fear mongering and making stuff up.
When is someone going to search for
Trum
rump
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tru
donol
Trump.
(White space)trum
Trum*
Trum +
lol did they just highlight over the text with black?
Would be amazing if someone spamed every corner of the internet with the documents unredacted, but then again even if you only had the victims names redacted people would still claim your hidding truth.
Many people use the highlight tool in Adobe to redact documents where you use black as the color rather than bright yellow. Adobe warns you that the document is still searchable even after using black to cover everything. You have to use the redact tool (which is an upgraded version of Adobe) to actually redact information, and the document must be secured to prevent searches. Guess the DOJ is using the free version of Adobe.
Wow...I mean...I know they didn't even do a good job of hiding it, but fucking Hell. It's almost like they're trying to be incompetent.
Fucking called that shit.
Incompetence or genius? It'd be too bad if someone were to do this knowing exactly what would happen.
Yeah. Guys. They aren’t that stupid. The stuff that actually matters cannot be “unredacted.”
Search "Trump tiny dick" 6,123 hits.
If true, screenshots?
I have to believe that there must be a few competent longterm employees at the FBI who recognized this issue, but just let it happen ("malicious compliance") instead of alerting the craven Maga hacks in their leadership.
After all, how many thousands of hours did agents spend working on this? They can't all be this stupid.
Mm. I’m more in favor of the explanation I read elsewhere. Quiet resistance among the rank & file.
Yep. This got me wondering if that is use ADOBE reader PRO can I just remove the black boxes that they added.
I have no doubt that there are many career FBI and DOJ employees doing deliberately shoddy redaction work.
This is not incompetency, this is insiders
Someone at the FBI was actually doing Gods work.
That's because they cut the funding for the apps used to redact things so we're stuck with just using word and highlighting in black.
Incompetence or malicious compliance?