In this muted, cerebral thriller, redacted words — at times, nearly an entire page is blacked out — eliminate identifying details of place and spying technique, and heighten the sense of disorientation.
Many pages were blacked out.
But in the public version of the report, released Friday, all but one paragraph in those pages is blacked out.
In nearly all the documents I obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, material — not only names but sometimes whole pages — is blacked out.
An outside contractor completed its assessment of the department's internal diversity 16 months ago, but about half of its 186 pages were blacked out in the version that the department posted on its Web site last month.
The home page was black on Friday morning and displayed only a message in Bengali that roughly translates as "we mourn but we are not gone".
The headline on the page was "Blacks".
The regulator sent back 68 pages in which virtually every sentence was blacked out.And of course, the upshot of all this is anything but abstract: doctors are left ignorant about the drugs they are prescribing, and which will make their patients sick or get well, or even live or die.
All of the pages were black.
Tucked into the pages were black-and-white photographs of workers, managers, and apprentices in dark cheongsam robes.
