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.
More recently, journalists receiving electronic documents have been thrilled to learn that a mere mouse-click can restore some redactions, as one researcher, Russ Kick of TheMemoryHole.org, discovered with a Justice Department diversity report in 2003.
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.
While PAR supports the language of the amendment that ensures future generations of adoptees will have unimpeded access to their original birth certificates, we oppose name redactions, as this does not treat adopted citizens equally under the law.
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.
There are also intriguing redactions, such as the final paragraph.
Partial redactions – such as properly removing the patient last name but missing the patient first name were rare (13 word tokens in 12 cases).
Nor has it properly considered "lesser measures", such as redaction, which would allow some disclosure of sensitive documents, or the possibility of closed sessions.
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.
