Episode 24: Edge Cases
2 parts
OBS-4 through OBS-6: the limits of indirect connection and what happens when scanning software hallucinates countries from blank forms. Each part builds on the last — investigative analysis drawn from court filings, financial records, and released documents. Browse all episodes or the full investigation archive.
- Part 1 OBS-4: John Waters and the Limits of Indirect Connection Observations
Filmmaker John Waters appears in four House Oversight documents through Peggy Siegal's Oscar Diary columns in Avenue Magazine, not through any direct fi...
- Part 2 OBS-5/6: When Scanning Software Hallucinates Countries From Blank Forms Observations
Two observations were retracted after visual inspection revealed that scanning software (OCR, or optical character recognition — software that reads tex...