Tech-savvy sleuths have discovered a way to uncensor the heavily redacted files on notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, as the Department of Justice continues to release the documents.
Some portions of the documents, initially blacked out in Adobe Acrobat by the federal agency, pop up when copied and pasted into Google Docs or Microsoft programs like Word, The Post confirmed during a test run.
The Post, however, cannot confirm the veracity of the redactions.
“Anyone can read redactions of the Epstein Files by just copying and pasting them into a word doc,” social media influencer Jake Broe wrote on X Tuesday, along with a video demonstrating the federal agency’s major document faux pas.
“The people at Trump’s Justice Department are so stupid they used Adobe Acrobat to black out the documents.”
Since Friday, the DOJ has released hundreds of thousands of documents tied to the billionaire sex offender after President Trump signed a bipartisan law requiring the government agency to turn over all “unclassified records, documents, communications and investigative materials.”
The trove of documents revealed shocking, never-before-seen photos of Epstein with numerous high-profile politicians and A-list stars, such as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (formerly Prince Andrew), Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson and more — including a half-naked Bill Clinton.
Photos of a stripped-down Clinton lounging with an unidentified woman in a jacuzzi and swimming alongside Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s convicted ex-girlfriend and madam, emerged Friday among the cache of documents released by the DOJ.
The 44th president was also snapped wrapping his arm around an unidentified female on a plane — and pictured palling around with Epstein during travels to the United Kingdom, Brunei and Thailand.
In another previously unseen photograph, Clinton, Epstein and members of their inner circle attended a dinner with the Rolling Stones frontman.
The Post also first revealed a trip on which Clinton invited Epstein and Maxwell as his plus-ones to Moroccan King Mohammed VI’s wedding in 2002. The event was memorialized in a photo that was also part of the DOJ’s release.
Clinton, who has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing involving Epstein’s twisted antics, fired back at the Trump administration, highlighting how there’s a deluge of documents that are still sealed.
“What the Department of Justice has released so far, and the manner in which it did so, makes one thing clear: someone or something is being protected,” Clinton rep Angel Ureña needled Trump in a statement.
“We do not know whom, what or why. But we do know this: We need no such protection.”
The massive document dump also included thousands of photographs of Maxwell, with Trump appearing in both previously released and newly released images.
Public interest in the Epstein case intensified after the FBI and DOJ released a joint memo in July concluding that he committed suicide in jail and did not keep a “client list” of rich and powerful men to whom he trafficked girls as young as 14, contrary to widespread speculation
Epstein died in his Manhattan jail cell in August 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges.
Despite a Friday deadline set by Congress to release the full Epstein files, the DOJ said the remaining records will be released on a rolling basis.
The DOJ did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
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