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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.

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[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

These documents *are* being sold, they are just modified before they get sold, so that these facts are taken off them. Basically the Unabomber archive is auctioned away, minus restricted information that they contain - which is in agreement with archival law of confidentiality.

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

Missing the point, you are.

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

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.