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The Justice Department releases DIGITAL INFORMATION in PAPER FORM so that nobody can index and search it easily.
More than 3000 emails are released as paper, though the information would easily fit on one CD-ROM.
All of this information could be created digitally in about an hour. Instead, they wait until the last minute and print it all out. Crazy, like a Fox . . .
They don't want anyone to be able to quickly index and cross reference this information. Computer data, printed on paper, scanned optically back into a computer in a form that is not easily searched or indexed. What a joke. What a travesty.
Looks like obstruction of justice to me.
If the documents are not physical copies or optical images there would be no way to know if they had been edited. All legal records have to be stored in a way that guarentees that can't be altered. I don't know the details of government archiving, but I would imagine the same is true or politicians could just alter the written trail right and left, which they obviously don't do or there weren't be so many jaw dropping things to read. Not to worry though. There are many, many excellent programs that allow printed documents to be scanned in, digitised, searched and cross checked in microscopic detail at the blink of the eye.The media will have no trouble at all with it.
