Does that mean we can charge these agents for distribution of CSAM.
this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2026
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In a just world, yes.
No, I think the idea is now if you download the newest epstein files they can charge YOU with CSAM. Even if you didn't know it was there when you downloaded it.
You may have a future career in the DOJ. "We need clever people like you!"
Seems to be the only logical reason; a way to criminally indict any opposers who have records kept against them. Did something similar before by releasing misinformation then deleting it from their server if I recall correctly. It's all despicable, definitely maddening to see our tax dollars fund this.
Generally no, laws like that are written with exceptions for law enforcement in the course of their normal duties. It'd be trivial to argue in court that that's what this is, and the reason for the redaction failure is the deadline Congress set.
Busy redacting Trump's name, federal government publishes CSAM.
FBI agents have really hit the bottom of the barrel in recruitment.
Trying to excise any CSAM (if they really were trying) is hard to do with only Ctrl-F and the use of LLMs, most likely.
Actually detecting nudity in photos is one of the things algorithms have got pretty good at. I would think if it was something they were concerned about, it would have been pretty simple to run a nudity filter over the whole set.
This administration is comic book levels of both evil and incompetence.
"The citizens are screaming at us for taking too long redacting everything, so just release everything."
Proceeds to publish CSAM
I don't believe this was missed at all. Even if it's a bad look for the admin it'll still soak up hundreds of hours of talk time when we should be talking about the depraved shit the victims statements accused Trump of doing to them.
Let's not get hyper focused on Trumpy to the point that rest of the fuck wits, nonces, and pieces of shits get to skate by.
Well perhaps decent to focus on the dude with the US nuclear arsenal at his whim a little bit....
Not that I think it diminishes any other mentions there.
Their whole goal, flood the zone with everything, few people keep up with one thing.
Amazing how much more consistant they never miss to redact people listed as co-conspirators... but so frequently miss the one thing they are actually supposed to be redacting
I thought they were stalling on this so they could protect the victims. Or at least that was their bullshit narrative.
They've got a different definition of victim, and they are doing their best (which isn't very good, frankly, they're very incompetent) to censor any mention of him. Or to take it down after accidentally posting it. Again, they're very incompetent.
I don't disagree that they're incompetent. But in this particular case what they're doing isn't incompetent at all. Surely you've noticed that anything in there that has Trumps name next to it is all things that couldn't be corroborated. Or things that couldn't be followed up on for one reason it another.
They took his name off from anything that was potentially investigated and proven, and left the "she says.." statements that have had no investigative follow-up so they can say "look how honest we are. Yes he's in there but none of it is actually provable"
Its a greasy, and slimy and frankly pure evil scheme. But its not an incompetent one.
This was done purposefully and to inflict pain.
Idk about to purposely inflict pain, but more because they don't give a fuck about who they hurt, but I do agree it was on purpose. That way they can claim it's the public's fault for demanding these files.
Personally I believe that they were forced into it, kicking and screaming, and they wanted to make it painful. They didn't care who got hurt, only that someone did get hurt.
I'm honestly surprised they haven't said, "calling it CSAM is woke."
i saw cnn using "sex with underage woman" in relation to epstein files, instead of...you know...raping children
They did this on purpose.
They spent how long and how many tax dollars paying federal employees overtime to redact this stuff?
There job was to redact names of criminals not victims
Man, the disintegration of Trump's base is fascinating to watch. The DOJ just gave up censoring things and released a shit load of unredacted files. Yes, there is CSAM but importantly the files are wide open and showing everything. And boy does it look really bad for a lot of people who were all wrapped up with Epstein.
And boy does it look really bad for a lot of people who were all wrapped up with Epstein.
I look forward to the infighting.
It's interesting that allegedly the "pizza" code talk was in there.
Go figure - it was Donvict's BFF that is the sex trafficker talking in code referencing pizza.
Not Podesta, not Hillary Clinton and not Obama, operating out of the basement of Comet Ping Pong or whatever the fuck...
Sure does explain why that conspiracy theory was so highly specific.
funnily enough, Epstein was behind QAnon too (which is largely what MAGA morphed from, braindead CPM viewers being driphead bits of /pol)
I wouldn't be surprised if it was intentional. "Why are you wanting to see all the files instead of just reading the normal news? Are you a nonce or what?"
Glad we were able to get all that Trump stuff out we might have missed something important.
If you still believe they only held back enough to protect Trump, you're not paying attention.
I don't want to see these images, but I want to know the context of them. Is there any article that describes the scenario taking place? I really don't want to start searching for this.
we cant access website,but this is typical life of oligarchs/rich. they are money,they are power
Can we just start a world war already so I can get distracted from......this.
And we can secretly take them out? I'm in
would probably be more effective if it wasn't secret
I prefer alien invasion. Been waiting to have my speech about alien probe and independence day or something.