Footage tied to Jeffrey Epstein’s death in federal custody appears to have been altered before it was shared with the public—despite being presented as unedited surveillance video—according to a joint investigation by WIRED and multiple independent video forensics experts.
Here’s what the analysis uncovered:
Hidden metadata embedded in the video file revealed that the footage wasn’t a direct export from the prison’s internal surveillance system. Instead, the file had been processed—apparently using Adobe Premiere Pro, a professional-grade video editing program. Evidence suggests it was stitched together from at least two separate clips, saved multiple times, and exported before being posted on the Department of Justice’s website as if it were “raw” footage.
But you’d have to be really stupid to think it’s the most likely possibility.
So, there are no Epstein files, Ghislaine was not involved in pimping underaged girls and it’s all just a big nothing. Good to know.
Jorge
Wow, this was really amateurishly done. That is, it seems to have been done by an practitioner, but someone who left in the metadata? Everybody knows about metadata now- was this left in deliberately by someone who wanted to sabotage the process?
mago
Break a leg, break a neck, pretend it didn’t happen.
Let it all hang out.
NR
Jorge: This is the same administration that published a report on the nation’s health that was written by AI and cited sources that didn’t exist. “Amateurish” is just how they roll.
As to the topic of the post: If there were no Epstein clients and no sex trafficking, as they want us to believe, why is Ghislaine Maxwell in prison?
shagggz
Boltzmann brains are also theoretically possible. Important to keep such rarefied matters in mind, lest it dull, as our shitlords would have it do.
Good point, Jorge. Incompetence is so indistinguishable from malice in the Trump kakistocracy that it’s a tossup. Then again, it can also be read as a technologically updated version of the tape left on the door in the Watergate break-in, a cockup so amateurish it suggests wanting to be caught. Snakes scheming on snakes all the way down, in this pluralistic oligarchy. Same as it ever was.
Ian Welsh
Reminds me of how everyone thinks “military grade” is a synonym for “best.” It often isn’t. Even among professionals, actual competence and attention to important details is rare. Every field I’m familiar with this is true, I expect it is for assassins, blackmailers and so on.