Talk politics.

well, if you wonder why they sell the documents whether they are "intact" or not, then I would say that the judge's reason is the only one (to collect money for the victim families), if you mean why the documents *are* being altered, then that would be the law (and the reasons for the law are plenty), if you think that there are documents that could merely be taken off the whole collection and not sold (instead of going in and altering a paper), then I would say the reason for FBI to do that would lie in the manner of which the Unabomber records were created. Usually, when restricted records are made public in this manner (cutting text), it is because names and personal information of victims are so weaved into the text, it would be the only way of releasing them, without either breaking the law, or not releasing them at all.