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Does anyone know why they'd be on the first and last page and nothing between?

Those are the only two pages with colour. Could be an anti-counterfeiting measure by the printer company.

Trifold pattern, or that document was signed the whole time with the source.

We've printed docs, scanned them, and OCR'd them in the past to get rid of unwanted data. Worth it with a sensitive source.

People saying this source's fault, no. Source protection is in the job, & often the source has to prove to you what you hide from the world.

"Winner was doomed no matter what" is lazy, counter-productive & frankly, unknowable. Journalists need to do better, & can. Focus on that.

To test your theory, I downloaded the PDF from @theintercept's DocumentCloud, took a screenshot of top RH side & yep, yellow dots. Oh dear.

well, it wasn't Winner, it was The Intercept.

Yes. I'm clear that @theintercept PUBLISHED the smoking gun. I feel disappointed in their security. (Am I wrong to feel that way?)

I am not going to tell anyone how to feel. :) But I do think this material belongs in journalism training, and hope to do that.

I can picture the exact look on Seth Schoen's face right now.

i can see it slowly changing as he presses his lips together and thinks of what he's about to tell us.

*pause* *raises eyebrows, looking right at you* *opens mouth a bit, glancing slightly sideways* *presses lips together* "Hmmmmmmm!"

text cosplaying seth on a monday night...

If I spoke Portuguese, I'd be doing a much better job of it rn.

or latin.