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The Justice Department has argued that various court filings (e.g., the ACLU’s filings against the PATRIOT Act, ongoing) need, as so many other documents need, redaction to keep sensitive material from becoming public.<\/p>\n

Obviously, at least in some cases, “sensitive” doesn’t mean “possibly harmful to national security” but “possibly embarrassing and rhetorically endangering of our position” — such as in this proposed redaction<\/a> from that previously mentioned ACLU filing<\/a> (partially rescinded by the Supreme Court, before whom it was filed), where what was redacted was (a) a quote from a previous Supreme Court ruling, which is, of course, public record, and (b) a quote about the dangers of government carte blanche in acting to protect “domestic security”:<\/p>\n

The danger to political dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect ‘domestic security.’ Given the difficulty of defining the domestic security interest, the danger of abuse in acting to protect that interest becomes apparent.<\/p>\n

That the Government (in this case, the DoJ) acted, in the name of “domestic security” to suppress this quotation is, in fact, mind-boggling, and indicative of the very dangers the quotation speaks of (in US v. US District Court for the Eastern Dist. of Mich., 407 US 297, 314 (1972).<\/p>\n

And, just as bad as the manipulative nuttiness of such a redaction attempt is that it calls into question every other attempt to redact or suppress material<\/em>, even those attempts which are wholly legitimate, defensible, and, were the facts known, supportable.<\/p>\n

In other words, it’s bad enough that the folks involved in this are acting in so apparently self-serving and indefensible a fashion, but it’s even worse that it stands to hamper other attempts to rightfully protect national security — which attempts do <\/em>sometimes require information to be redacted.<\/p>\n

But who can accept that on face value now? Particularly given this laundry list<\/a> of similar redaction attempts.<\/p>\n

I’m still trying to figure out why John Ashcroft still has a job. It’s yo-yo moves like this that makes me think the only way to get rid of him is to get rid of his boss in a few months …<\/p>\n

(via Antipixel<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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