Those deletions occur in order to protect attorney-client privilege, attorneys' work product for clients, commercially sensitive information, and information not relevant to the litigation, according to Sara Alpert Lawson, a Tampa-based attorney who specializes in complex civil litigation, white-collar criminal defense and government investigations. In the legal world, attorneys routinely redact portions of documents that to be turned over during the discovery process in civil lawsuits.
(The book was published with blank spaces showing the location of the redacted passages.) Decades later, documents obtained using FOIA still are sometimes riddled with blank squares over faces in photographs and black bars over words and sentences, and sometimes entire pages, as the FOIA website details.īut its not just the government. Marks sought to publish a book on the agency in the early 1970s, government censors, who had the authority to review the book under Marchetti's employment contract, redacted 168 passages from the text, as Marchetti's New York Times obituary details. When former CIA employee Victor Marchetti and co-author John D. Redacting has long been a part of government-imposed secrecy. But attorneys, journalists and historical researchers are accustomed to blacked-out spaces on documents as a consequence of dealing with sensitive subjects. It's a phenomenon that most ordinary Americans probably are unfamiliar with, as evidenced by the 4,000 percent spike in the number of searches for "redact" and "redacted" on the Merriam-Webster dictionary website in March 29, the day that Barr sent a letter to Congress revealing that he would release a redacted version of Mueller's report.
Welcome to the arcane, secretive subculture of redaction, which is the practice of removing or concealing portions of documents before publication.
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