From: ' (USAFLS)" ctl To: Paul "Brad Edwards ( Cc: "la i Ii,S"‹ (USAFLS)" Subject: RE: Status of E-mail Review Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 00:31:34 +0000 Importance: Normal Paul and Brad, My apologies for a delayed response, I was on travel to Columbia SC on February 23-24, 2017. The FBI identified two e-mail systems used by its employees: (1) the Unclassified Net (UNET), which is used to send and/or receive e-mails from outside the FBI. This would include emails from other DOJ components, other federal agencies, and other federal and/or state law enforcement agencies; and (2) the FBI Net (FBINET), which is used by FBI employees to communicate internally. The FBINET is secure and is capable of transmitting classified information. I was told that, since we were searching for older e-mails, they would not exist if the e-mail had been "double deleted," e.g., deleted from the e-mail inbox, and then deleted from the deleted items box. Also, e-mails on the FBINET were not regularly backed up until after the period specified for our search, 2006 - 2008. I asked the FBI to conduct a search of the e-mail accounts of Special Agents and the co-case agents in the Epstein criminal investigation. The search was to cover the period January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2008. I provided the FBI Information Technology section a copy of petitioners' Supplemental Request for Production to The Government Regarding Evidence of Government's Violations of Victim's Rights, dated August 25, 2016 (transmitted on August 29, 2016). I asked the FBI to design a search which would cover responsive e-mails, and told them I wanted a broad search. The FBI search yielded 246 emails on the UNET, and 1,908 on the FBINET, for Agents and email accounts. On January 18-19, 2017, and February 8, 2017, I went to the FBI Miami field office and reviewed the emails retrieved by the FBI. None of the e-mails I reviewed were responsive to Supplemental Discovery Requests 1 through 8. Specificall