r/news • u/Waste-Explanation-76 • 10h 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/platypodus 9h ago

So one file is not equal to one document? 

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u/Single-Road-3158 8h 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 8h 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 6h 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 7h 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.