FBI agents have been ordered to put aside national security investigations to aid the effort.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is frantically trying to complete the destruction of the files related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation before their public release.

Agents are ’working around the clock’ and have even suspended ongoing investigations to process the files, it claimed, citing sources familiar with the efforts.

Every FBI division was ordered to provide agents for the task, including those working on criminal and national security issues, the named US broadcaster said.

Agents were told to put aside ongoing probes, including into threats allegedly posed by China and Iran, to assist with the censoring and removal work.

The slashing has been ongoing for ’much of the week’ in the FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, as well as in offices in New York and Chantilly, Virginia, the report said. Agents have reportedly spent hours making cuts to both text files and videos.

According to the report, the amendments were required under federal law. The US Justice Department (DOJ) still vowed to ’deliver unprecedented transparency for the American people’ in a statement to CNN.

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order shortly after taking office, mandating the release of the Epstein files along with classified documents related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.

The DOJ released what it called ‘The Epstein Files: Phase 1’ in late February. The documents were heavily redacted and contained mostly previously reported information.

US Attorney General Pam Bondi then accused the FBI of withholding thousands of pages of documents related to the investigation.

The initial release was also criticized by Florida Representative Anna Paulina Luna, who leads Trump’s newly established declassification task force. 

‘Get us the information we asked for instead of leaking old info to the press,’ she wrote on X at that time.

The Epstein case has drawn significant attention due to the late financier’s extensive network of high-profile associates, including former US President Bill Clinton, Britain’s Prince Andrew, billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and numerous other celebrities and business leaders.

Trump also personally knew the convicted sex trafficker but denied ever visiting his private island and maintains that he cut ties with him in the 1990s, years before Epstein’s first arrest for soliciting prostitution in 2006. TELL US WHAT YOU THINK

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