Their redactions are a violation of the classification guidelines, which are designed to protect the public from agencies illegally classifying information for non-national-security reasons, such as trying to censor embarrassment or cover up mistakes.
"When you compile a report that has a bunch of embarrassing facts about the executive branch, and then you send it to the executive branch for their redactions, what do you think you're going to get?" Poteet said he hopes the precedent set by Khan will allow more information about his client's torture to be unsealed.
In Chicago, Northwestern Memorial argued in court that patients would not trust such redaction of their records -- copies of which would pass through hundreds of hands -- to keep private such an intimate procedure.
The possibility exists that the different frequencies that Mexican versus US Spanish texts exhibit within the same question-and-answer genre were motivated, at least in part, by the time spent by students in the redaction of their assignments.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2369/14/57/prepub wantantothankank Dr Eric Cohen from Milwaukee, Mrs Fabienne Damblon and Mrs Rosalie Bonmariage for their help in the redaction of the manuscript.
He said that officials were assessing their procedure for review and redaction — and "trying to find a lighter touch".
In addition, the placebo event rates for influenza infection were very different between the two trials and their pooling, combined with the redaction of centre numbers, preventing from them being individually added to a meta-analysis.
Several former spies have gone to court to fight redactions to their books, and the Defense Department spent nearly $50,000 last year to buy and destroy the entire first printing of an intelligence officer's book, which it said contained secrets.
Back in 2011, it was made clear to the inquiry by Sir Gus O'Donnell, former Cabinet Secretary, by that "there was no prospect of reaching agreement that notes from Mr. Blair or records of discussions between the UK Prime Minister and the President of the United States should be disclosed in their entirety, even with redactions".
