[wolpoli]

Black square vs redaction tool difference is well known if someone's job involves redacting PDF or just working with PDF. It's most likely that additional staffs were pulled in and weren't given enough training.

[Dusseldorf]

Colleagues whose full time job is doing this sort of thing for various bits of the government have told me this is exactly the case here. People from all over the government have been deputized to redact these documents with little or no prior training.

[culi]

If there's that many people who have access to these files, I'm shocked there hasn't been leaks until this point.

[dboreham]

CUaaS. Cover Up as a Service.

[mindslight]

I wonder if this activity is being used as a kind of loyalty test. Keep track of who is assigned to redact what, and then if certain files leak or are insufficiently redacted, they indicate who isn't all in on Dear Leader.

It's not like a few more stories of Trump raping $whomever are going to move the needle at all, especially with how the media is on board with burying negative coverage of the regime.

Also if you're wondering how this activity isn't some kind of abuse of government resources, keep in mind that thanks to the Supreme Council's embrace of the Unitary Executive Theory (ie Sparkling Autocracy), covering up evidence about Donald Trump raping under-aged sex trafficking victims is now an official priority of the United States Government.

[cynicalsecurity]

Let people believe it's deliberate sabotage. Unfortunately, in real life, minions of a dictator serve the dictator; they don't risk their live or safety for a noble cause. Any screw-ups are a result of gross incompetence that is typical for every dictatorship.

[brunoqc]

Maybe because facism favor loyalty over competence.

[andsoitis]

Do you truly believe the US is currently a dictatorship?

[exasperaited]

Yeah — don't attribute to resistance what can adequately be explained by idiocy.

[asmor]

It seems insane that nobody at the other end runs something as simple as MAT or imagick (twice) over it to take the text layers out before uploading though. I hope this is at least partially intentional.

[baby]

My understanding is that many people were fired and replaced by loyalists at the FBI. I think there are a lot of incompetent people working there right now.