General Discussion

The files are voluminous, and exist in both paper and electronic forms, and no doubt there are multiple paper and electronic copies of the thousands of documents kept in many different offices and computer storage. And the Epstein estate has tons of it that the feds might not even have. It would be impossible to make all incriminating evidence disappear from all the paper and electronic copies, and if one copy disappears another will almost certainly be produced from somewhere. Electronic copies are really hard to get rid of because you don't know if, when or by whom it was copied and where the copies went. If someone wanted to leak parts of the files it would probably be pretty easy - nothing like when Daniel Ellsberg had to smuggle 7,000 pages of the Pentagon Papers out of the office in his briefcase, a little at a time, over a four-month period in order to photocopy them a page at a time.