The FBI’s New York field office normally handles counterintelligence, counterterrorism, public corruption, international drug trafficking, and financial crime investigations. Right now, though, it has been ordered to prioritize redacting sensitive information in the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Vanity Fair reports, citing multiple sources, that nearly a thousand agents, who normally work on national security issues in the bureau’s largest field office, are working night and day combing the documents instead of on their regular jobs.

“It’s literally all hands on deck,” one unnamed source told the magazine. “I even saw an agent walking in with a pillow.” One former agent called the situation “ludicrous.”

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    Eh the victims might like to be unnamed if they haven’t come forward already

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      I hadn’t actually considered that, but I don’t trust them to only be redacting the victims.

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        Seeing as the first tranche listed Trump’s name 7 times, my guess is that’s why this bunch is being combed through.

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      And they should be redacted. But with this administration, the victims names and all personal information will not be redacted. Just the names and personal information of the perpetrators will be redacted.