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This might be a good thing, but since the government has the option to release 100% redacted documents, the Secret Service hasn't really been ordered to release anything other than a stack of black pieces of paper. If they release more than that, it's because they either want to, or don't care.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/page/department-justice-black...

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Maybe they can, BUT they won't.

You see, as The President of The United States of America pledged: if he gets elected, he will create the most transparent administration in the history of the USA!

So long story short, they will not redact anything.

I can't tell whether you're being completely clueless or hilariously sarcastic & witty.

I'm betting on the latter, and like gin & tonic with a spritz of bitters.

Definitely sarcasm...

Tangentially related: https://twitter.com/fisa_court

To be fair, the bar for "most transparent administration in the history of the U.S.A." is not a high one.

Or maybe black ink is out, boxcutter redacting is in

Talk about releasing very transparent documents.

Whatever they do about one case doesn't tell you much

Nonetheless, we'll get to see how much is redacted and therefore how much they want to hide. That's valuable information in and of itself.

I predict his file will be incredibly boring/banal stuff, with the odd wild conjecture. The blacked out parts will consist entirely of things embarrassing to the agents who compiled it.

I wonder if it would be legal for them to throw on a few extra all-black pages as "padding".

Not worth it obviously, but it would be an amusing hack.

Like a couple pages of redacted "This page intentionally left blank"?

Yeah, exactly! You'd have to redact the blankness of course, otherwise people would know what it was.. ;)

Either way, they get to collect IP addresses of those who try to view it.

It would have the potential to be valuable in the future, if nefarious acts came to light via some other method, because it would potentially show that possibly illegal actions were taken to hide the information. However, if nothing actionable is ever discovered about this case, then the redacted documents would be completely worthless. Only time will tell.

Metadata :-)

the Secret Service hasn't really been ordered to release anything other than a stack of black pieces of paper.

Wouldn't that de facto qualify as a contempt of court?

aahh.. politicians and marketing machines settings the agenda.. sam's place same time and a steady stresm..

Maybe we get real and make it all Open Source.. and two sides.. Hell.. maybe we can KickStart a 200 millions cable submarine project ? ??

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