Who Benefits?

I haven’t been following this very closely but possibly as long as the list is held in secret, there’s some leverage to be wielded over the scum guilty of participating in the crimes. It’s my opinion that even if the names were revealed there will be no consequences anyway. Hunter suffered no shame after his laptop was opened. Flying on a jet to that island doesn’t provide proof of child abuse. However, there are those hidden camera recordings that should be made available to a judge and jury as proof.

Sadly, they keep proving what some of us have said. It’s all theater.
I’d like to be wrong.

I think the problem is the vast amount of material they got. I work as an expert consultant. On occasion, for instance, I have been handed over 30,000 pages of medical records, 10,000 pages of interviews and 100 hours of video to go over. Think about that. If I scan 40,000 pages of material and spend only 1 minute per page, that’s 40,000 minutes, of work, or 667 hours. At 40 hours per week, that’s 17 weeks just for the paper, not to mention the three weeks for just listening to the videos. And, of course, you really can’t explore medical records at depth at 1 minute per page.

So, let’s say I average 10 minutes a page — that’s 170 weeks, of three years. Now, with medical records, you really *can* skim a lot of it, but the bottom line is still that it takes forever. And I’ve been burned in court for having skipped over some page in a stack of thousands of pages.

Usually clients present me with selected excerpts of the data, because they’ve had someone else (who charges less per billable hour) look for things *they* think I will be interested in. But sometimes that doesn’t work.

What these people are doing is not skimming through the data looking for nuggets for court, though. These people are going through these pages word by word looking to remove the names of victims, names of informants, etc. Plus, there are hundreds if not thousands of hours and hours of surveillance. Having done this kind of thing, I can say that it’s physically impossible to do it quickly and well.

But you can make your own assumptions and make your own expectations. Let’s say you have 100,000 pages of data and 10,000 hours of video. How long do you think it would take you to go through it carefully? Just sit down and do the math.

There’s no question that the Trump Administration over promised on this — because they didn’t know how much stuff there was, and because they believed that *somebody* had already gone through it all and organized it. Instead, the Southern District of New York kept it hidden.

In contrast, the Trump Administration. has been pretty good about other things — JFK, RFK, etc. I don’t think they “lied.” I think they didn’t know what they were getting into.