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They left nude photos of underage victims unredacted. The DOJ literally spread CSAM.
For anyone curious, AP News did a piece on this in more detail.
The most chilling part of it for me was this one.
I wonder if these victims could push for charges relating to "revenge porn" against the DOJ or even the president himself if they can construct the narrative that the DOJ was acting on his orders.
Maybe. I'm no lawyer, but it would probably be hard to do. For example, here's a few excerpts from a page on Congress.gov talking about the TAKE IT DOWN act:
...which means the DOJ would have to be caught on record having an employee go like "I think we should publish this girl's face alongside all these nudes for the heck of it!", or having an employee go "I'm not gonna bother censoring that one, I'm too lazy", something like that, which makes it clear they did it on purpose and didn't just like, forget to censor a photo because there were a lot of them.
However, it does state:
...which means the definition of "knowingly" in this case could be up to the courts. For example, a judge might say "you might not have chosen to leave it uncensored on record, but knowing the content would include explicit images, you did not check all the images to be sure before releasing them, therefore you knew it could happen and went along with it"
The second part is much harder to solve which is:
Proving harm is much harder, since you can't just rely on the fact the images were out there, but that the victim knew and was harmed psychologically, or didn't know but was harmed in some other way, and you have to do that for every victim you want to claim under this act.
Even the minors part still has problems:
...since it's hard to prove they did it specifically to arouse someone, or to abuse/humiliate/harass/degrade that minor.
Essentially, TLDR, it's almost certainly never going to happen, but there is still a theoretical chance that with enough evidence of it being intentional, you could get someone arrested, though it would probably be some specific person responsible for the censoring of that dump of images rather than anyone high up.