EFTA00148020¶
Subject: Re: Epstein search warrant documents¶
Just to be clear. The US Attorney’s Office (or it’s contractors) are not “processing” anything. You are taking files that I will be extracting from processed evidence and putting them into an E-Discovery tool (Relativity) to do taint review.¶
Relativity is NOT forensic tool. It is incapable of dealing with many things that are found forensically on computer like free space, slack space, and system files to name few. When we started this, and you insisted you do the taint review in Relativity, I warned you that it was adding months worth of work on top of what was already done, and that Relativity was incapable of viewing everything. You insisted we do it this way. So now and I have come up with way to fit this round peg into this square hole. We will get it done.¶
Sorry it has taken so long, but we are talking about terabytes worth of data over multiple forms of digital evidence. Phones, tablets, loose media, cameras, DVRs, servers, laptops, and desktop computers. We have gotten past encryption on multiple devices. When we review devices on such large cases, we usually do it piece by piece as things are processed, I was unaware that you didn’t want to review as things were processed, that you wanted to do it “all at once”, so that added to the delay. Sorry for that. Just differentiation of methodology I suppose.¶
and I feel confident that the method we have come up with will be more consistent and preserve the attribution of files to devices and links of e-mails to attachments that the load file generation that I did while back was lacking.¶
Okay, so just to check, you both think that there is not need to do test run? You’re both comfortable with just basically sending us copies of everything? I don’t totally understand why we couldn’t have done that eight months ago, but regardless of the passage of time, I want to make sure we understand so we can report to our supervisors. I assume that means that we (at the U.S. Attorney’s Office and through contractors) will therefore need to do all the processing ourselves, correct? And thanks again to you both.¶
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 11:30¶