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Comey or 'Corney'? Stalking a Half-Popped Kernel of a Deep-State Kerning Conspiracy

December 24, 2019

Take the most recent baffling curiosity, the fact that the name “Comey” – as in former FBI Director James B. Comey – didn’t appear once in the 476 pages of the report released Dec. 9 on the FBI’s abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Or so it seemed. Sure, there are many references to the former FBI director in it. But search for “Comey” and your computer tells you there is no such word in the document. By contrast, search for “Corney” and you get nearly 150 results – results that all look like “Comey.” What gives?

Perhaps it is just an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) problem. A PDF is not a word-processing document made up of so many individual letters. Instead, a PDF is an image, often an image of text. To search such an image of text, computers use OCR to analyze the shapes of the little squiggles and identify them as letters. Once the letters are known they can be searched.

So, could the Comey/Corney conundrum be an OCR problem? “Nooooooooope!” is the emphatic answer of “u/Lumyai,” writing at the “conspiracy reddit.” The argument that follows is compelling. The poster counted up the 23,851 “m’s” and found the only ones represented as “rn” were those in “Comey.” Also, there are some 2,000 instances of “rn” in the document but only in Corney/Comey is the “rn” combination mistaken for an “m.” u/Lumyai offers examples of some of the many words in the Horowitz report where the computer has no trouble making out “r” and “n” without confusing the two together as an “m”: attorney, government, concerned, international, and earnest.

It’s almost enough to make one agree with u/Lumyai’s conclusion – that someone has doctored the text in “an intentional conspiracy to shield James Comey from key-word searches.” This might be done, a graphic designer who does typesetting for publications tells RealClearInvestigations, by including an invisible layer of searchable text under the unsearchable, visible image of text. For example, the visible layer would have an image that looks like the name “Comey” but under it, in the invisible layer, is the text “Corney.”

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But what would be the point? I rather doubt that U.S. Attorney John Durham is going to be fuzzled by a trick keyword search. Chances are he will have read the complete Horowitz report and seen all the passages that reference James Comey, even if Corney/Comey confuses the computer.

If there has been a conspiracy, it has failed, perhaps because of the conspiracy-theorists who have been drawing attention to the strange spelling of Comey in the digital version of the Horowitz report.

But most important, the document has been changed. Sunday evening, I went to show my brother-in-law the Comey/Corney effect and what did I find but that it had disappeared.

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/12/24/comey_or_corney_a_half-popped_kernel_of_a_deep-state_kerning_conspiracy_121746.html