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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/34840943

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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[–] SquiffSquiff@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I thought the onion only posted satirical or parody stories, not real news

[–] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is "Not The Onion", meaning it's headlines that sound like they should be jokes, but aren't.

[–] Lupus@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago

Tbf nowadays that's just 'the news'...

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

You got fooled! This is nottheonion.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

I wonder how many occurances of "Donald" and "Trump" they have to hide one way or the other.