The Department of Justices long-delayed release of surveillance footage from Jeffrey Epsteins final hours has only deepened public suspicion rather than resolved it.
According to the Gateway Pundit, the DOJs 10-hour and 52-minute prison video, already under scrutiny for a missing minute first flagged by the outlet, is now facing fresh questions after a CBS News investigation and video forensic review uncovered multiple major irregularities.
CBS reported that newly released Department of Justice documents show that investigators reviewing surveillance footage from the night of Jeffrey Epsteins death observed an orange-colored shape moving up a staircase toward the isolated, locked tier where his cell was located at approximately 10:39 p.m. on Aug. 9, 2019. That movement, captured in an observation log from the Metropolitan Correctional Center, appears to contradict earlier official explanations about who was on Epsteins tier that night.
The DOJ had previously asserted that the orange figure was merely a corrections officer carrying orange linens, a mundane detail that conveniently fit the governments narrative of routine operations. Yet the same log now notes that a flash of orange looks to be going up the L Tier stairs could possibly be an inmate escorted up to that Tier, raising the obvious question: Who was this inmate, and why has that possibility only surfaced years later? The FBIs own documentation adds to the confusion, with one memorandum acknowledging that reviews by investigators led to disparate conclusions by the FBI and those examining the same video from the Department of Justices Office of Inspector General.
The FBI log itself describes the indistinct figure as possibly an inmate, a characterization that stands in stark contrast to the DOJs earlier, more definitive claim about a guard with linens. For a case involving a high-profile offender with deep ties to the global elite, such contradictions are not minor clerical errors; they go to the heart of whether the public can trust federal authorities to police their own.
Noted pedophile of the rich and powerful Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his Manhattan prison cell on August 10, 2019, just one week after he supposedly attempted suicide in July. The 66-year-old financier and convicted sex offender was officially ruled a suicide by hanging, with reports stating that Epstein, who was 6 feet tall, secured the bedsheet on the bunk bed and wrapped the sheet around his neck.
For many Americans already wary of a two-tiered justice system that shields the well-connected while aggressively pursuing political opponents such as President Donald Trump, the unresolved questions surrounding Epsteins death and the unexplained flash of orange only reinforce the perception of a federal bureaucracy more interested in protecting its own than in full transparency.
Until the government provides a coherent, consistent account of who moved on and off Epsteins tier that nightand why key video segments remain disputedskepticism will remain not only reasonable but necessary in a system that demands accountability from citizens while too rarely delivering it from its institutions.
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