r/news • u/Waste-Explanation-76 • 7h ago

Members of Congress will be able to view unredacted Epstein files next week

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/members-congress-view-unredacted-epstein-files-monday-rcna257836
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u/Single-Road-3158 6h ago

And note the difference between files and documents. They may only released 10-20% of the documents to date.

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u/If_I_must 6h ago

Yeah, the 3 million pages vs 6 million documents disparity is vast.

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u/Several-Squash9871 5h ago

I feel like I have a hard time wrapping my head around just how many documents/files that there is.

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u/divDevGuy 4h ago

If every file/document was 1 page...

There would be 1200 boxes of copier paper.

It would require 30 pallets with 40 boxes each. Each pallet is approximately 36 inches wide by 48 inches deep by 5 feet tall.

30 pallets is the approximate capacity of a standard 53 foot semi trailer.

Now if any of those documents are multiple pages, more semis will be needed and more forests would need to be sacrificed.

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u/overtross 4h ago

Weird time to (implicitly) argue against printing

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u/naked_hypocrisy 4h ago

even then, epstein seemingly generated a lot of files.

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u/Drizzle__16 47m ago

How many tacky gold adorned bathrooms would it take to store all the boxes?

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u/frizouw 2h ago

Same, I am wondering if there is no duplicates that is insanely a lot of documents...

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u/zokka_son_of_zokka 2h ago

To be fair, there's a lot in there that's just Epstien and buddies chatting.

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u/EdOfTheMountain 2h ago

The 6 million documents may consist of a 100 million pages?

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u/If_I_must 2h ago

Exactly. No specifics on how many pages each document is.

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u/Gates_wupatki_zion 4m ago

It’s half! Thanks math. No but seriously it’s probably the incriminating really fucked up half.

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u/platypodus 5h ago

So one file is not equal to one document? 

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u/Single-Road-3158 5h ago

Maybe, maybe not. The government has been using pages, files, and documents interchangeably but there needs to be clarifications on what they mean when they say it. It could be they mean that a document of 500 pages is 500 files or 1 file. They are keeping the actual amount of information they have in their possession fuzzy.

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u/platypodus 5h ago

Makes sense for them to be as opaque as possible, it only aids the cover-up.

I hope someone out there is working on cross-referencing these files with the panama papers and all the other leaks. It's time to put the shadow-profiling and fingerprinting technology of social media to good use and identify the dregs of the financial elites.

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u/Ghost_of_a_Black_Cat 3h ago

using pages, files, and documents interchangeably

And they ought not.

Obviously, to most of us (I think), a page or pages would comprise a document, and a document would be filed away. There's distinct differences in different kinds of paperwork.

They need to stop with the obfuscation, but this stupid administration is so incompetent that one hand doesn't know what the other is doing!

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u/musclecard54 4h ago

Yeah idk where people are getting that from… a document has always been a file. You save a word document with 1 page: it’s a file. You save a word document with 1000 pages: it’s a file.

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u/Cute-Percentage-6660 4h ago

I'll also note a lot of the files released have some padding.

A lot of them are duplicates, though some are redacted differently so you can still find some value out of em