FBI’s Flagship Field Office Puts Epstein Case File Redactions Ahead of All Other Investigations — Some in 12-Hour Overnight Shifts: Report

The FBI’s flagship New York field office has reportedly shifted its focus to a single mission: reviewing and redacting the Jeffrey Epstein case files for public release.

According to a bombshell report from Vanity, over a thousand agents and civilian employees are burning the midnight oil—some pulling 12-hour overnight shifts—to pore over the late sex trafficker’s records.

The news outlet reported:

“It’s literally all hands on deck,” one source familiar with the matter tells me, adding that dozens and dozens of agents are working around the clock on the case, instead of on their regular duties. “I even saw an agent walking in with a pillow,” the source added.

The New York field office is an epicenter for FBI counterintelligence, counterterrorism, public corruption, international drug trafficking, and financial crime investigations… One FBI veteran calls it a “ludicrous” situation.

ABC News, citing unnamed sources, reported that up to a thousand FBI agents—“many of whom are usually focusing on national security matters”—had been pulled into the effort to review the files. The network also quoted FBI spokesperson Ben Williamson as saying, “Director Patel is committed to full transparency and justice.” (Williamson did not respond to multiple requests to comment for this story.)

Far-left CNN confirmed the frenzy, noting agents are hunched over computers, redacting files at breakneck speed to meet deadlines set by Attorney General Pam Bondi.

The news outlet reported:

Agents have been ordered to set aside investigations, including some related to threats from China and Iran, to help complete the redactions, people briefed on the matter say.

Every division in the bureau has been ordered to provide agents to the cause, including those who work on criminal and national security matters. This weekend, agents in the Washington field office are spending hours on redaction duty, people briefed on the matter say.

“Under Attorney General Bondi’s leadership, the Department of Justice is working relentlessly to deliver unprecedented transparency for the American people,” a Justice Department spokesperson said in response to CNN’s inquiry.

For much of the week, agents could be seen filing into a room at FBI headquarters, with some also doing the work at field offices in New York and at an FBI office in Chantilly, Virginia, the sources said. For hours, agents sit at banks of computers, using editing software to identify redactions required under federal laws, including the Privacy Act. The material also includes video.

According to the Wall Street Journal, FBI agents have been directed to redact only the names of victims and their personally identifiable information—such as phone numbers and social media handles—during their review, sources said.

The victims’ city and state, however, must remain visible. Reviewers were specifically instructed not to redact large portions of text and were told that names of third parties, including witnesses, relatives of victims, and others connected to them, are not to be protected.

In cases where nude images of victims are found, agents are permitted to redact the entire body; but if the victim is clothed, only the face may be blacked out.

It can be recalled that the so-called “Epstein Files: Phase One” was a colossal disappointment — heavily redacted pages handed over to a select group of MAGA influencers.

Bondi had hyped the release on Fox News with Jesse Watters the night before, promising “flight logs, names, and a lot of information” about Epstein’s depraved criminal network.

Conservatives braced for a bombshell that would finally unmask the elite swamp creatures tied to the notorious pedophile. Instead, they got a dud.

During a new interview with Mark Levin, Bondi provided a crucial update, confirming that she had only received about 120 pages of documents—despite being “assured” this was all that existed.

But through an independent source, she discovered that the Southern District of New York (SDNY) has been sitting on thousands of pages related to Epstein, keeping them away from the public eye.

James Dennehy, the head of the FBI’s New York office, threw in the towel just days after his office was revealed to have been hiding thousands of Epstein documents.

Two sources confirmed to NBC that Dennehy was given the choice between getting fired or resigning. He chose the latter.

In an interview with investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson, President Donald Trump provided an update on the long-awaited release of classified files regarding Jeffrey Epstein, Martin Luther King Jr., and John F. Kennedy.

Trump revealed that despite ongoing deep-state resistance, particularly from the FBI, the process is advancing and will culminate in major disclosures in the coming weeks.

Last week, JFK’s assassination in 1963 was finally released by President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice.

Files have been released and are available on the DOJ Archives page.

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