Tuesday, August 31, 2004

The Memory Hole is one of those kooksites that occasionally hits a story dead on. Last year, they picked up a crude Photoshopping of a crowd in Baghdad square to make it look larger. And recently, they catch the Justice Department censoring a Supreme Court quote. This is what the Justice Department wanted to black out:
"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."

Please God let there be some greater context that we are not seeing, so that this redaction is something other than what it looks like. 'Cause that's some scary shit otherwise.

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