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To: Sean_Anthony
This article's hyperbolic exaggeration of the term, "redacted" pushes it perilously close to the category of "Fake News".

Judy Mcleod is an ignorant rabble-rouser who, obviously, has zero concept of what constitutes a Top Secret document or what is required to de-classify one.

The fact that the document's top-level, or "Header" classification is "Top Secret" means that, in one or more of its "portions" or paragraphs or sections, there is at least a single word, phrase or statement that divulges Top Secret information that could, if divulged, threaten National Security.

For example, during WWII's "Mahattan Project", a single presence of the words, "uranium""atomic" could (depending on context) require an entire book to be classified "Top Secret".

Until that bit of Top Secret information is redacted, the document cannot be declassified.

Ostensibly, the "memo" deals with misuse of information extracted from NSA intercepts, and, there is information that could compromise -- or provide clues to -- how the NSA works. That information must be redacted in order to declassify the memo.

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Granted, most of us have felt the frustration of finding huge blacked-out blocks instead of information we desire. Many times, those redactions are used to "CYA" obscure the misdeeds of government actors.

But, give Chairman Nunes the credit of intending to expose the perfidy of malicious "Deep State" malefactors -- and grant him credit for having the intelligence to NOT obscure the message he wants to convey to the American people. E.G., there is 99.999 probability that the malefactor's names that were redacted in the FISA Court Opinion will presented "in the clear" in the IC's "memo".

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Judy Mcleod should stick to hyperventilating about things concerning which she has a clue. The "FISA Abuse Memo" is NOT one of those things...

61 posted on 01/28/2018 9:41:32 AM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias | "Islamists": Satan's assassins | "Moderate Muslims": Useful idiots.)
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To: TXnMA

Judi...


62 posted on 01/28/2018 9:42:41 AM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias | "Islamists": Satan's assassins | "Moderate Muslims": Useful idiots.)
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Top secret has a new meaning...now it’s anything that would incriminate a democrat.


76 posted on 01/28/2018 10:45:36 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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