77 pages that were unredacted
There are four separate layers to this:
- Distributing leaked government documents is illegal, these redacted documents being unredacted legally is a leak
- All personally identifiable information and actually classified information is still redacted, any information to my best knowledge (not a lawyer btw) is within the boundaries of H.R. 4405 (aka Epstein files transparency act).
- It is still possible that the information is still legally classified however since its now effectively public it might be used by a future legal case against the admin for violating H.R. 4405, in such a case these and other yet to be unredacted files could be legally unredacted.
- Regardless of the actual legal status of these documents the person who originally uploaded these “leaked” files is likely going to face trial before a sham court. Remember, there is no such thing as rule of law anymore only rule by law and even lawyers are saying that now. As an individual the chances of getting punished for reading or distributing these files is slim unless you are a significant public facing person.
(I am not a lawyer this is not legal advice)
Eh, it helps me a layman get a rough idea of something I am way too uneducated to have a sound opinion on. So I appreciate you breaking it down.
Idk, idc, but it’s on my phone now, and if it were a torrent, I would be seeding that SoB for the rest of my life.
No.
But fascists don’t follow law anyways.
Also the blacked out stuff you can just select in pdf viewer and copy paste into another text document to read it. That redaction process is useless.
Haven’t looked at one of the Epstein files, I’ll leave the legality and content sleuthing up to others. What I am interested in is how these supposedly redacted PDFs were made.
I have dug out my copy of ol’ Acrobat pro 9 (fuck Adobe anything after CS6) and have run a few tests. The redact tool is powerful, incredibly easy to use and idiot proof. If there are redacted PDFs that can be hacked (copy & paste) they weren’t made using the redact tool in Adobe Pro.
There is a theory going around that DOGE cuts removed Adobe Acrobat licences and the thought of hundreds of untrained FBI or DOJ agents frantically using a black highlighter in MS Word is absolutely hilarious to me. Move fast; break things.
