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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe question about Mueller report redactions is not why it's redacted, but why it's so easy to crack
I skimmed through the Mueller report the morning after it came out and I was able to find a full quote in the media that wasn't redacted in the ten minutes I had to myself to read it, there are clearly other references to Roger Stone that are redacted, and it looks like the name "Donald Trump Jr" has also been redacted.
Why was it so easy to find this out?
Is Barr this incompetent?
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)delisen
(6,044 posts)of the Republican Party which George Herbert Walker Bush belonged to.
That branch may be the chief beneficiary among Republicans branches if the Trump goes down before election 2020.
nuxvomica
(12,442 posts)The memo he wrote to curry favor with Trump seemed kind of random to me, and then there's all his and Rosenstein's posturing. One explanation could be a sting is in the works. But there are other explanations, like both of them are just ethically challenged.
Merlot
(9,696 posts)He thought it worked before (it didn't) and didn't understand that now with the internet and social media that the strategy was bound to fail.
He's ethically challenged is the whole explination. No sting, no posturing, no motive unseen.
nuxvomica
(12,442 posts)It was how he got inside with the Trump administration, a blatant attempt to get Trump to to hire him as AG. So I don't think Trump really knows what Barr's mission is, which may have more to do with protecting Russians than Trump himself.
Merlot
(9,696 posts)Does barr have any obvious russian ties?
California_Republic
(1,826 posts)And some time if you have the software that redacted the original document you can just undue it. What was the format of the released document?
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)away Trump Jr is where the names of subjects are listed with a couple redacted, the last redacted name starts on one line and ends at the beginning of another with a very small redacted space. Normally in print spacing you wouldn't split a person's last name, but the redaction is just enough space for a name qualifier like "Jr".
ROB-ROX
(767 posts)I think the whole episode was BOTCHED on purpose. They tried to please "old bone spurs" but they did not TOTALLY redact the report where required. The security people who reviewed the report may not had favored the idea that "security" clearances were given to tRUMP "rats" (people who failed basic security clearance requirements.) The whole mess will make an interesting movie for those who VOTED for this "crazy crappy" government of greedy corrupt criminals.