To start, the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee's 6,000 plus page report on the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) past detention and interrogation program following September 11 , 2001 must be released with as few redactions as possible.
It's impossible to tell from the FBI release when Comey made his final decision, as more than 50 pages in the document are blank due to redactions, as was the statement in the email chain.
Supporters are also calling on the club's majority owner, Stan Kroenke – described by RedAction as "an absentee owner who takes money from the club" – to take action.
Applebaum went as far as calling that redaction "a mistake".
So we took the additional step of redacting as much identifying information as we could — knowing that any redaction we performed would be imperfect, but believing that there's a strong argument for distributing this, not only for its value in illustrating the Markoff case, but as a rare window into the shadowy process by which Facebook deals with law enforcement.
Despite promising anonymity for whistleblowers in order to encourage them to give evidence, Garcia favoured publishing as much of his 430-page report as possible – with redactions where required.
But then Ross changes his mind again, and we return, heavy hearted (in my case at least), to the mausoleum, with its po-faced high priests spouting their dismal gibberish: "First you will undergo the biomedical redaction …" Existence, as Vladimir Nabokov wrote in Speak, Memory, "is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness".
Benedict's redaction was seen as thwarting any effort to enlist him on the side of the reformers, and it placed him squarely in the center of the latest controversies.
He said "the 28 pages", which were prepared by a special House-Senate committee investigating pre-9/11 intelligence failures, reviewed much of the same material and ought to be made public as soon as possible, although possibly with redactions to remove the names of a few Saudi suspects who were later cleared of any involvement in the terrorist attacks.
Nothing expresses American ambivalence about government secrecy as vividly as the old Washington craft of redaction, the selective removal of passages from once-secret papers or books by spies.
