India, July 16 -- Almost three minutes of footage was cut out from what the Justice Department and FBI described as 'raw' footage from the only functional camera near Jeffrey Epstein's prison cell, the night before he was found dead.

The Wired reported that the analysis of the metadata showed that one of the source clips was around 2 minutes and 53 seconds longer than the final video. However, the publication noted that it was unclear what, if anything, the minutes cut from the clip showed.

The discrepancy may be due to the gap in footage between 11:58:58 pm and 12:00:00 am, which has been widely reported, and put down as a nightly system reset by Attorney General Pam Bondi. While Wired also reported on the fact that two clips were stit...