30 Aug 2004
Redactions Run Wild

Follow the link to see the evidence: it's pretty convincing, as well as pretty scary.

Anybody who has read many official documents—including those making headlines in the last year or more—has seen plenty of redactions (those portions that are blacked out or otherwise made unreadable). This, we're told, is for legitimate reasons, such as "national security" or "protecting intelligence sources and methods." But now we have absolute, incontrovertible proof that the government also censors completely innocuous material simply because they don't like it.

(link) [The Memory Hole]

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