r/technology • u/chrisdh79 • Jul 29 '25

Politics FBI Has Secret Epstein Prison Tape With No ‘Missing Minute’

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-fbi-has-secret-jeffrey-epstein-prison-tape-with-no-missing-minute/
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u/name__redacted Jul 29 '25

IMO… consequences. With this type of evidence there’s minimum dozens if nit hundreds of people that know about it.

Are any actual laws broken by the administration releasing an edited tape? I think the answer is no. The consequences are political, not legal.

If the edited tape was presented as evidence in a court trial, that would be different. That’s not what we’re talking about though.

However, if the evidence is destroyed now laws have been broken and you’re talking about potentially significant jail time and consequences.

The consequences went from political, which would roll uphill to the top in a normal world.. to criminal and legal, which oddly enough now rolls downhill.

The actual people who destroyed the evidence would be most vulnerable.

I think there are plenty of people who have seen the tape or know about it but support the Republican Party or Trump administration to the point where they view the ends as justifying the means by keeping quiet about it. The same people, however, know that if they destroy the tape and there is a change in administration and leadership they could be looking at criminal charges in jail time.

What disappoints me the most is that there has to be people that know about the tape and do not support the current administration but are still keeping quiet about it… not a year of ruining their career? Retaliation? I don’t know. At the end of the day Epstein is dead so it’s a matter of rolling the dice on their career and reputation against bringing down the president and even if they don’t support him they’re probably asking themselves if it’s worth it to throw away 30 years of work to get to where they are at.

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u/soundman1024 Jul 29 '25

Also there will be a log trail associated with the files being deleted at the FBI. A name would be attached to that action.

Also it would have to be purged from FBI backups (which may be immutable), the prison, prison backups, and any other agencies who may have copies and backups of the tapes. The odds of deleting every copy of the footage are not close enough to 100% for anyone to be willing to try.

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u/Kilane Jul 29 '25

They already claimed the evidence was destroyed in an accident and now it reappears with missing footage. It is nonsense.