"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake" - Napoleon Bonaparte

Let all the files get released first.

Then show your hacks.

They're not 'hacks' it's the people doing the redaction making beginner mistakes of not properly removing the selectable text under the redactions. They're either drawing black rectangles over the text or highlighting it black neither of which prevents the underlying text from being selected.

Keeping that secret would require sponaneous silence from everyone looking at these docs which is just not possible.

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irjustin 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes but don't tell them they're doing it wrong.

	▲	agumonkey 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Misdirection 101

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refurb 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Also don’t assume the mistake wasn’t intentional.

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culi 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This was my initial reaction to this news. I mean think about it

The Trump team knows that nobody is gonna buy whatever they put out as being the full story. Isn't this just the perfect way to make people feel like they got something they weren't supposed to see? They can increase trust in the output without having to increase trust in the source of it

And as far as I've heard there hasn't been anything "unredacted" that's been of any consequence. It all just feels a little too perfect.

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aucisson_masque 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's the same government that invited a journalist to a signal discussion about ongoing military strike in Yemen.

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h33t-l4x0r 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Maybe that was just a ploy to get us to underestimate them.

	▲	Natfan an hour ago \| parent [-]
		consider Hanlon's Razor

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gmueckl 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is probably one of those events where everyone on the inside has their own story that won't fit into a neat overarching narrative of how the files are handled because they only gets to feel part of the elefant each.

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kristofferR 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No, it's the opposite, it's fairly damaging. Previously they could claim, dubiously but plausible, that all redactions were about protecting victims (the only redactions allowed under the act). A lot of the "undone redactions" are solely about protecting the abusers, illegal under the law.

Whether breaking a law actually matters anymore is another question though, as crime is legal now.

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themafia 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Crime may go unpunished by this is why statues of limitations exist. The window on some crimes stays open for a very long time.

	▲	potato3732842 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		"Some" is 99% crimes against the state with the occasional bone they throw the peasants to look like they care. Heck, murder probably wouldn't even be unlimited if not for the fact that it thumbs it's nose at the state's monopoly on violence.

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refurb 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That was my thought. Just happen to leak some info for people you are interested in hurting but claim it was an accident.

And in terms of no big news in “unredacted”, it’s likely names that don’t mean anything to the average voter but damaging material for K Street.

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chistev 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."

	▲	9dev 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Exactly my thoughts as well.

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esseph 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Too late. The data has been touched far too many times. The chain of custody and any accountability will never happen.