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It's disappointing that the PDF is not machine-readable; definitely a regression from the Obama years: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/201

It's disappointing that the PDF is not machine-readable; definitely a regression from the Obama years: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/05/09/executive-order-making-open-and-machine-readable-new-default-government- https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/0... Can anybody give percentages of redactions for relevant sections and breakdowns for reasons ("Harm to Ongoing Matter", "Grand Jury", etc.)? I skimmed the report and saw a handful of pages completely blacked over, and I believe those revolve around Internet Research Funding and associations with the Trump campaign. I'll wait until Congress receives the full, unredacted report and closed-door testimony from the Special Counsel and hear what Schiff et al. have to say before making a judgment, but ultimately the fact that the 2016 election came this close in the first place was a severe failing in and of itself.

Qub3d 8y ago
I suspect the whole document got squished down to prevent issues we've seen previously, like redactions being removable in PDF progams. (And yes, I checked. No dice)
IfOnlyYouKnew 8y ago
> definitely a regression from the Obama year Of all the things one could choose to focus on... :) Be glad there even is a digital copy. First indication was printout only, and according to rumors I just made up, “interpretative dance” was another option considered.
legitster 8y ago
PDFs have a hidden meta layer of text. It is INSANELY easy to "block out" text thinking you are redacting it, but it is still right there in the document. The only safe way to handle document redaction is convert a PDF to a series of images. Let someone on the public side do all the work of converting it to text.
- yingw787 8y ago
  Ahh I didn't think about this. I was thinking more in the lines of Photoshop, where you can have multiple layers and then compress them together when exporting and lose the metadata. But yes, this is definitely sensitive enough to not take any chances.

Qub3d 8y ago

I suspect the whole document got squished down to prevent issues we've seen previously, like redactions being removable in PDF progams. (And yes, I checked. No dice)

IfOnlyYouKnew 8y ago

> definitely a regression from the Obama year Of all the things one could choose to focus on... :) Be glad there even is a digital copy. First indication was printout only, and according to rumors I just made up, “interpretative dance” was another option considered.

legitster 8y ago

PDFs have a hidden meta layer of text. It is INSANELY easy to "block out" text thinking you are redacting it, but it is still right there in the document. The only safe way to handle document redaction is convert a PDF to a series of images. Let someone on the public side do all the work of converting it to text.

yingw787 8y ago
Ahh I didn't think about this. I was thinking more in the lines of Photoshop, where you can have multiple layers and then compress them together when exporting and lose the metadata. But yes, this is definitely sensitive enough to not take any chances.