Reposted from my blog at
Three Guys:
The Memory Hole has caught the Justice Department engaging in more bogus redactions. (Flashback: they've been caught doing this before, with a diversity document.)
There should be huge penalties for this kind of crap. It's naked abuse of the office.
This is what they felt the need to redact; it's a
quote from a Supreme Court decision:
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.
As my co-blogger Srinivas Ayyagari put it, does irony know no bounds?