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The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out
Metadata from the raw Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the missing minute.Newly uncovered metadata reveals that nearly three minutes of footage were cut from what the US Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation described as full raw surveillance video from the only functioning camera near Jeffrey Epsteins prison cell the night before he was found dead. The video was released last week as part of the Trump administrations commitment to fully investigate Epsteins 2019 death but instead has raised new questions about how the footage was edited and assembled.
WIRED previously reported that the video had been stitched together in Adobe Premiere Pro from two video files, contradicting the Justice Departments claim that it was raw footage. Now, further analysis shows that one of the source clips was approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds longer than the segment included in the final video, indicating that footage appears to have been trimmed before release. Its unclear what, if anything, the minutes cut from the first clip showed.
The nearly three-minute discrepancy may be related to the widely reported one-minute gapbetween 11:58:58 pm and 12:00:00 amthat attorney general Pam Bondi has attributed to a nightly system reset. The metadata confirms that the first video file, which showed footage from August 9, 2019, continued for several minutes beyond what appears in the final version of the video and was trimmed to the 11:58:58 pm mark, right before the jump to midnight. The cut to the first clip doesnt necessarily mean that there is additional time unaccounted forthe second clip picks up at midnight, which suggests the two would overlapnor does it prove that the missing minute was cut from the video.
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In response to detailed questions about how the video was assembled, WIRED sent a request for comment to the Department of Justice at 7:40 am on Tuesday morning. Just two minutes later, Natalie Baldassarre, a public affairs officer for the DOJ, replied tersely: Refer you to the FBI. The FBI declined WIREDs request for comment.
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https://www.wired.com/story/the-fbis-jeffrey-epstein-prison-video-had-nearly-3-minutes-cut-out/
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The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out (Original Post)
Uncle Joe
20 hrs ago
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Blue Owl
(56,650 posts)1. They're pissing on our leg and telling us it's raining

slightlv
(6,094 posts)2. This:
The nearly three-minute discrepancy may be related to the widely reported one-minute gapbetween 11:58:58 pm and 12:00:00 amthat attorney general Pam Bondi has attributed to a nightly system reset. The metadata confirms that the first video file, which showed footage from August 9, 2019, continued for several minutes beyond what appears in the final version of the video and was trimmed to the 11:58:58 pm mark, right before the jump to midnight. The cut to the first clip doesnt necessarily mean that there is additional time unaccounted forthe second clip picks up at midnight, which suggests the two would overlapnor does it prove that the missing minute was cut from the video.
Is not bumper sticker simple enough for a maga to understand. It's only understandable (if then) by elaborate explanation... which usually means someone is hiding something.
FakeNoose
(37,822 posts)3. After the 3 minute gap, is Epstein still alive?
If the answer is yes, then the gap is meaningless. If it's no, then this is evidence of the cover-up.