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      Who is gonna do it? There’s not an infinite number of people who can be given access to the unredacted data for review. And those people have other things they’re legally required to do as well.

      Don’t misunderstand me. They’re also doing a bunch of other illegal shit to hide participation by Trump and others, but that doesn’t mean the 30-day timeline for redaction and release wasn’t overly ambitious.

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        I’ve worked at firms that spontaneously hire hundreds of contract lawyers to do doc review, on time, because they have deadlines

        The administration is simply incompetent and evil

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          But not just any private lawyer can be given access to the unredacted Epstein files. Of course, the information should be available now because they should have started this in January when the judge’s seal on the files mandated by the Mawell appeal expired.

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            This is demonstrative of their evil and incompetence, a serious lack of knowledge and experience.

            They had plenty of time to make the security clearance and contracting arrangements. They simply never intended to follow through on anything in good faith and were caught with their pants down this time.

            Do you think whoever redacted those documents by just changing the text backgrounds were proper lawyers with proper security clearances?