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Both analyses found that the two clips, labeled \u201c2025-05-22 16-35-21.mp4\u201d and \u201c2025-05-22 21-12-48.mp4,\u201d were stitched together. The first clip is 4 hours, 19 minutes, and 16 seconds long, but only the first 4 hours, 16 minutes, and 23.368 seconds appears in the published version, meaning nearly 2 minutes and 53 seconds were cut from the end. According to the metadata, the cut occurs just at 11:58:58 pm. The cut is milliseconds before the one-minute recording gap that Bondi said was caused by a quirk of the surveillance system. The second clip, \u201c2025-05-22 21-12-48.mp4,\u201d picks up immediately afterward, continuing the footage from 12:00:00 am until 6:40:00 am.<\/p>\n
The analysis was first provided to WIRED by a researcher who requested anonymity for privacy reasons. WIRED reviewed its findings with two independent video forensics experts, each with over 15 years of experience in Premiere and video production, who confirmed that the edit occurred just before the missing minute mark and that approximately three minutes of footage were cut from the original clip.<\/p>\n
The FBI released both \u201craw\u201d and enhanced versions of the video. Both versions include internal comment markers, annotations typically used in editing software to flag moments of interest. The enhanced version, which the FBI referred to as Video 2, contains 15 such markers that apparently correspond to visible movement near \u201c46 door\u201d at New York\u2019s Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC). This door is near the cell block where Epstein was being held while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. These markers appear to have been left by analysts during their review, but they do not include the original comment text.<\/p>\n
According to a 2023 report by the DOJ\u2019s Office of the Inspector General (OIG), only two cameras in the vicinity of the Special Housing Unit (SHU), the area of the MCC where Epstein was held, were filming and recording at the time of his death. According to the report, the camera that recorded the footage the DOJ released July 7 captured video of a large portion of the SHU common area and parts of the stairways leading to various \u201ctiers,\u201d one of which housed Epstein\u2019s cell.<\/p>\n
The OIG report notes that the MCC\u2019s surveillance system was outdated at the time of Epstein\u2019s death, \u201chad not been properly maintained,\u201d and that the DVR hard drives that stored the video files \u201cfrequently malfunctioned and needed to be replaced.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both the 2023 OIG report and the DOJ-FBI memo published last week state that anyone entering or attempting to access the tier containing Epstein\u2019s cell from the SHU common area on August 9 or 10, 2019, would have been visible on that camera. However, Epstein\u2019s cell door itself was not within the camera\u2019s field of view. The stairway leading to the tier where he was held was also partially obstructed and difficult to see clearly on the video. (A second camera, which covered the \u201cninth-floor fire exit and two of the floor\u2019s four elevators,\u201d was also filming at the time, according to the OIG report.)<\/p>\n
Amid backlash from supporters and critics alike, President Donald Trump defended Bondi on Saturday, saying she was doing a \u201cfantastic job.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s going on with my \u2018boys\u2019 and, in some cases, \u2018gals?\u2019 They\u2019re all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB!\u201d Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. \u201cWe\u2019re on one Team, MAGA, and I don\u2019t like what\u2019s happening. We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and \u2018selfish people\u2019 are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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