Are select materials being removed from the DoJ site?
Today I was reading about the judicial progress against another unchecked billionaire rapist and it mentioned some statements Lord Peter Mandelson made to Jeffrey Epstein upon the occasion of Epstein's conviction in 2008.
I didn't recall that exact wording, so I went to the linked article that focused entirely on the emails between Epstein and Mandelson. As I often do, I wanted to see if the quoted section was all there is or just a truncated version of a much longer exchange, so I went to find the EFTA version.
Only thing is, when I went to the DoJ site, these particular career-ending emails are gone, or are at least not found when searching by text, which is what I was doing. They're still readily found in Jmail, of course, though even the Jmail versions no longer have a link to the actual EFTA files on the DoJ site.
Here's the first email mentioned in the above-linked Guardian article, and here's the second. But nothing left on the DoJ site, even though almost 6,000 other records of Epstein's communications with Mandelson remain.
Just to see if this is going to be a thing, I went to another linked article in The Guardian that lists ten points of evidence in the Epstein -- Mendelson correspondence that suggest a close friendship, and looked up each of the quotes on both the DoJ site and in Jmail.
Many were there and findable on a text search just as they should be, but sure enough two are missing from both the DoJ site and strangely also from the Jmail archive: #3: “Peter will be staying at 71st over weekend” from Epstein to Jes Staley, June 2009; and #5: “Petie’s quitting” from Epstein to Jes Staley, May 2010.
Am I missing something? Or are the orange lackeys just back to quietly removing the rich and powerful from the EFTA releases hoping nobody notices.
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Understand that I'm not specifically concerned with finding these particular emails. The emails were adequately quoted in the articles, and it was only curiosity that caused me to look further.
As far as the original records from the main DoJ dumps go, those are still out there, not just in the US but around the world, just like pee in a swimming pool, and will remain so. There are multiple public archives and who knows how many private archives, plus whatever got quoted and used in derivative works, such as The Guardian articles I referenced.
Rather, I'm concerned with what the DoJ is doing, and specifically why. They pulled this more than once at the beginning, releasing records and then trying to retract the more troublesome ones (which is why people started archiving them immediately upon release) and then stopped for a while. Looks like they're back at it.
Or to put it another way, a highly placed person or group of people made the specific decision -- likely upon request -- to take down those specific records and leave the rest of them up. Why would the presence of these few particular emails on a government server scare anyone? Yet they do, enough for someone to act on that, and have been very quietly removed. That's the interesting part.
A shit ton of people immediately downloaded everything and uploaded a public archive...
You could easily cross reference and see if anything changed.
If what you can't find now is on the archive, then at some point it was taken down. Or you just can't find it online.