Comment by mschuster91
8 hours ago
A case can be made to discuss if the deadlines imposed by that law are actually achievable with humans and an acceptable degree of errors (i.e. overredaction, improper/recoverable redaction, and underredaction).
That's also why many "large" criminal cases only have a very limited subset of the initial charges make it to trial (often to understandable public outrage). The larger the case, the more evidence material has to be sifted through to make an airtight case, so a lot of it is dropped before the trial to secure a conviction at all.
Basically Al Capone, rinse and repeat - they got him on taxes because that's far easier to prove than ordering or committing a murder to the required degree of certainty.
The interests of the victims, their families and the general public are different from the interests of the government... the victims/families/public want justice for the unique crime they were subject to, the government just wants to lock up the bad guy for as long (or as short, let's be clear) as possible.
> A case can be made to discuss if the deadlines imposed by that law are actually achievable with humans and an acceptable degree of errors (i.e. overredaction, improper/recoverable redaction, and underredaction).
But just a few months ago, they came out and said there were no more documents to release, now there are too many documents that it's not humanly possible to release the documents in said time frame?
> But just a few months ago, they came out and said there were no more documents to release
That lie is a different but just as pressing problem. But that, at least, is far easier to hold the responsible people accountable... assuming of course someone actually wants to dive into that rabbit hole, and current Congress doesn't look like it will. Maybe after the mid-terms there will be some movement if the shift is serious enough, but for now I'll assume the worst case that either no one will be held accountable, or Trump will issue a blanket pardon again.