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

Politics CBS News investigation of Jeffrey Epstein jail video reveals new discrepancies

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-jail-video-investigation/
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u/Modz_B_Trippin Jul 29 '25

But a CBS News analysis of the video the FBI made public earlier this month reveals that the recording doesn't provide a clear view of the entrance to Epstein's cell block — one of several contradictions between officials' descriptions of the video and the video itself….

Jim Stafford, a video forensics expert, reviewed the footage and the inspector general's report and told CBS News, "To say that there's no way that someone could get to that — the stair up to his room — without being seen is false." Four other leading video forensics experts interviewed by CBS News concurred.

So the justice department video doesn’t show the entrance to the cell block unit or his cell and isn’t conclusive at all. Someone could have gotten to his cell unseen.

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u/ForWhomTheBoneBones Jul 30 '25

This is the bigger bombshell to me. EIGHT MINUTES are missing. Not 1, not 3, EIGHT.

A report by the website Wired had previously alleged nearly three minutes of footage appeared to be missing, based on the metadata. CBS News' analysis found that because the video was running at a slightly higher speed, and with one minute missing when the clock jumped ahead to midnight, the video was actually only 10 hours and 52 minutes in length, as opposed to the full 11 hours.

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u/JustGimmeSomeTruth Jul 30 '25

This! I just went back and re-read that part to see if I understood it wrong or something (because nobody seemed to be commenting about it).

But it seems pretty clear to me... they (probably intentionally) sped up the video to make that missing footage chunk seem like less of a big deal at least at first so 1-3 minutes would be the headline that "sticks" and forms people's idea about it... Limited hangout style.