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[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

FBI To Cut Up Unabomber Papers

X-Acto knives in hand, FBI employees are poised to manually redact a mountain of documents--20,000 pages of which are handwritten--that were seized from the Montana cabin of Ted Kaczynski, the convicted Unabomber.

I can't read this at work so I don't know if the answer is in the article, but F-ing WHY!? What's to redact? It's not like he knew any state secrets that can't be revealed. Just because you don't like what he said or did doesn't mean you need to permanently destroy it. It's historically useful at a minimum. Frakkin' stupid gov't.

Comments

[dreadfulpenny81.livejournal.com]

I think instead of redacting them and selling them, the FBI should have kept them on record. It would have been a great educational tool for future agents and a great resource for the government in future cases of domestic terrorism.

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

I'm sure they'll have a copy of everything. Probably sans redactions even.

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

The agency has copies, but they are confidential. It is the actual act of selling the originals which prompts changes in the original collection, in order to follow archival legislation to classify victim information.