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    Fun fact: Anybody can type any date they want into Word. They could have dated it March 15, 44 B.C., since that string of characters isn’t document meta-data. When I worked at a law firm, it was common to create a new document by opening an older file, editing it, and saving it as a new one. Quite possibly, the legal assistant edited an August 9th press release to create the draft, and forgot to change the date before saving. Further, this press release comes from the U.S. Attorney’s office, which is a different location, with entirely different staff, from the corrections center. It would make exactly zero sense to get the U.S. Attorney, much less the legal assistants, in on a conspiracy. Keep the number of conspirators to a minimum; that’s like Conspiracy 101.

    There’s are a lot of odd circumstances around his death, but as evidence of something fishy, this is super weak.

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      I personally don’t know how the US government functions, but I know people that worked for various big insurance companies and they had a system in place with all the templates and things such as the date would be autofilled by it. I wouldn’t expect the US government to just have a random folder with random templates that they pick and edit in Word.

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        I know a guy who’s an attorney, and he’s worked for DoD, GSA, and SSA. That’s just how they do it. That draft press release is very clearly a Word document, and while Word has templates and auto-update fields, well, lawyers are not tech people.

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      Keep the number of conspirators to a minimum; that’s like Conspiracy 101.

      That’s why I believe Bush did 9/11, but he kept it to himself. He didn’t coordinate anything. He just pretended not to read the “Bin Laden determined to strike U.S.” memo.

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      i’m trying to remember, wasn’t Barr running the US Attorney’s office? or was it just the bureau of prisons and the entire rest of the department of justice?

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      I agree. It’s not like they would leak that they would kill Epstein to the person drafting press releases…