更新于：2026年2月11日 / 美国东部时间晚上9:58 / CBS新闻
最新公布的文件显示，联邦调查局(FBI)正竭力解释去年为何公布了一段缺失一分钟的屏幕录像，而非原始录像，这段录像记录了杰弗里·爱泼斯坦(Jeffrey Epstein)死亡当晚的情况。
这一差异引发了关于掩盖事实的阴谋论，此前时任联邦调查局副局长丹·邦吉诺(Dan Bongino)曾承诺，该机构将公布爱泼斯坦在曼哈顿监狱的原始监控录像，”这样你们就不会认为有任何可疑行为”。联邦调查局从未公开解释为何最终公布了一段有时间缺失的视频。
去年5月，随着公众要求对司法部关于爱泼斯坦的记录进行公开审查的呼声高涨，该机构遇到了一个问题：它已经销毁了大都会惩教中心(Metropolitan Correctional Center)爱泼斯坦最后几小时的监控视频主副本。
2024年6月，一名联邦调查局探员申请并获得授权，销毁了一件标有1B60的证物，称其为”与案件不再相关”的展品。
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根据爱泼斯坦档案中的一份文件，该物品是”包含[曼哈顿惩教中心]视频图像档案的磁带”的主录音，存放在布朗克斯区的一个仓库中。
2025年2月，一名探员在另一份文件中解释了销毁视频的理由。
“由于此案已结案，且[已编辑检察官姓名]于2024年8月26日同意该机构的证据处理程序，因此批准销毁1B60号物品，”该探员写道。”根据联邦调查局政策，如果证据物品未被处理，调查案件档案必须保持开放。”
但到2025年年中，司法部需要重建已销毁的证据。根据迄今公布的数百万份文件（即所谓的爱泼斯坦档案）中的内容，这引发了一场复杂的重建视频文件的紧急行动。
联邦调查局数字取证和分析部门负责人在7月编制了一份关于采取这些步骤的高级概述。
这一努力包括获取另一份存储在尼斯视觉(NiceVision)数字视频录像机（监狱使用的系统）两个文件中的片段。其中一个视频文件从晚上7:40开始，另一个从午夜开始，到早上6:40结束。2025年5月21日，一名探员使用屏幕捕获工具重新录制了尼斯视觉系统中的录像。
但有62秒的录像无法被捕获，导致从11:58:58到12:00出现一段空白。
7月视频发布后不久，公众注意到视频从大约11:59跳转到午夜。邦迪总检察长没有解释这段录像实际上是从副本拼凑而成的，而是宣布这段空白的原因是监狱记录系统每晚重置，导致每晚丢失一分钟。
“有一分钟的时间记录出了问题，我们从监狱管理局了解到，每年每天晚上他们都会重新录制这段视频，”邦迪7月8日表示，并指出该系统已经老旧。”每天晚上都会重置，所以每天晚上都应该有同样的缺失一分钟。所以我们也在寻找那段视频，以证明每天晚上都有那个缺失的一分钟。”
看起来邦迪接受了该部门负责人总结的一个推测性结论，即系统每晚重置，导致丢失了那一分钟。这一理论似乎尚未得到证实。
“视频专家推测，此时的尼斯视觉系统需要时间来写入文件，导致录制的实时延迟，从而在午夜前出现一段未记录的时间间隙，”该部门负责人写道。”视频专家无法测试其理论的准确性。”
专家在7月告诉CBS新闻，时间延迟理论似乎不太可信。CBS新闻采访的安全系统专家中，没有人听说过有这样问题的系统。
司法部尚未回复有关视频文件的问题。
一名联邦调查局专家试图使用视频编辑软件Adobe Premiere合并屏幕录像，但”Adobe Premiere无法处理屏幕捕获生成的视频文件格式”，该部门负责人写道。
然后，专家使用了名为Fast Forward Moving Picture Expert Group的软件”将文件转换为能够导入Adobe Premiere的格式”。
这一阶段导致了另一个明显的差异，去年《连线》杂志发现”其中一个源片段比最终视频中包含的片段长约2分53秒，这表明视频在发布前似乎被剪辑过”。
《连线》的分析是正确的。该部门负责人称这是”标准做法”，即屏幕录制时会在末尾添加”填充”（额外的录制时间），可以在发布时删减。
“当屏幕录制被导入Adobe Premiere时，填充部分被剪掉了，”该部门负责人写道。《连线》指出，屏幕录制中使用的第一个视频文件是带有”填充”的文件，它在11:58:58结束，”这表明两个片段会有重叠”。
CBS新闻2025年7月的一项调查发现，视频在午夜后的外观（即宽高比）发生了变化。
该部门负责人解释说，”文件的宽高比也经过了调整，以创造更自然的外观。”
包括缺失一分钟在内的完整录像于9月由国会公开。录像显示，在那一分钟内没有出现任何值得注意或异常的情况。
Mystery of the missing minute from Epstein jail solved
Updated on: February 11, 2026 / 9:58 PM EST / CBS News
Newly released documents show the FBI’s scramble to explain last year why it released a screen recording with a missing minute from the night Jeffrey Epstein died, instead of the original footage.
The discrepancy fueled conspiracy theories about a cover-up after then-Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino promised the agency would release the original surveillance footage from Epstein’s Manhattan jail “so you don’t think there are any shenanigans.” The FBI has never offered a public explanation of how it ended up releasing a video with a gap in footage.
Last May, as a groundswell built demanding public scrutiny of the Justice Department’s records on Epstein, the agency ran into a problem: it had already destroyed its master copy of surveillance video from Epstein’s final hours in the Metropolitan Correctional Center.
An FBI agent sought and was granted in June 2024 authorization to destroy an evidence item labeled 1B60, describing it as an exhibit “no longer pertinent” to the case.
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That item, according to a document among the Epstein files, was the master recording of “tapes containing the archive of [Manhattan Correctional Center] video images.” It had been stored in a Bronx warehouse.
In February 2025, an agent explained in a different document the justification for destroying the video.
“As this case was already closed and [redacted prosecutor’s name] concurred on 08/26/2024 with agency evidence handling procedures, authorization was granted to destroy Item 1B60,” the agent wrote. “Per FBI policy, if an evidence item remains undisposed, the investigative case file must remain open.”
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But by mid-2025, the Justice Department needed the destroyed evidence reconstructed. That launched a complicated scramble to rebuild the video files, according to documents included among the millions released so far in what have become known as the Epstein files.
A high-level overview of the steps taken to do so was compiled in July by an FBI digital forensics and analytics section chief.
The effort involved obtaining another copy of the footage that remained stored across two files on a NiceVision digital video recorder, the system used in the jail. One of the video files started at 7:40 p.m. The other started at 12 a.m. and ended at 6:40 a.m. On May 21, 2025, an agent used a screen capture tool to re-record the footage from NiceVision.
But 62 seconds of footage couldn’t be captured, leaving a gap from 11:58 and 58 seconds, to 12:00.
Soon after the video was released in July, members of the public noticed it jumped from about 11:59 to midnight. Rather than explain that the footage had been pieced together from a copy, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the reason for the gap was that the prison recording system had a nightly reset resulting in a lost minute every night.
“There was a minute that was off that counter, and what we learned from Bureau of Prisons was every year, every night, they redo that video,” Bondi said on July 8, noting that the system was old. “Every night is reset, so every night should have that same missing minute. So we’re looking for that video as well, to show it’s missing every night.”
It appears Bondi had accepted a speculative conclusion summarized by the section chief, that the system reset nightly, losing that minute. It’s a theory that appears to have been unverified.
“The Video Specialist theorized the NiceVision systems at this time required time to write files and caused a real time delay in what is recorded resulting in a gap of time not recorded right before midnight,” the section chief wrote. “The Video Specialist was unable to test the accuracy of his theory.”
Experts told CBS News in July that the time delay theory was implausible. None of the security system specialists CBS News spoke with had heard of a system that had that issue.
The Justice Department has not replied to questions about the video files.
An FBI specialist tried to merge the screen recordings using the video editing software Adobe Premiere, but “Adobe Premiere did not work with the video file format the screen capture was created in,” the section chief wrote.
The specialist then used software called Fast Forward Moving Picture Expert Group “to convert the files to a format capable to ingest into Adobe Premiere.”
That stage led to one more apparent discrepancy discovered last year by Wired, which “found that one of the source clips was approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds longer than the segment included in the final video, indicating that footage appears to have been trimmed before release.”
The Wired analysis was correct. The section chief called it “standard practice” when doing a screen capture to include “padding” to the end, extra recording time that can be pared back.
“When the screen recording was brought into Adobe Premiere the padding was trimmed,” the section chief wrote. Wired pointed out that the first video file used in the screen capture was the one with “padding.” It ended at 11:58:58, “which suggests the two (clips) would overlap.”
A CBS News investigation published in July 2025 noted a shift in the video’s appearance, known as its aspect ratio, after midnight.
The section chief explained “the aspect ratio of the file was also corrected to create a more natural appearance.”
The full footage,including the missing minute, was made public by Congress in September. It showed that nothing notable or unusual appeared on the recording during that minute.
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