The January 4, Nov. 1 -- Removing a survivor's name from a document may not protect their identity. A reference to a relative, a school or a workplace can also identify them. The Justice Department's instructions for reviewing the Epstein files recognised that risk and required reviewers to look beyond highlighted names.

the review software's name-highlighting feature did not work in Excel files or images. Elsewhere, it could miss misspellings or highlight names that did not require protection. Reviewers were instructed to read entire documents carefully.

The rules explain what reviewers were supposed to do. They do not show how consistently those instructions were followed-or what happened when reviewers discovered a recurring problem....