Redactions, visualized

[MelissaB]

Link to tweet

[BumRushDaShow]

1. Here is a full size image from the pic in the tweet

[MelissaB]

3. Thanks! A lot less redactions than I expected.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Yup. Not "half"

maybe 1/3rd (out of 400+ pages).

Looks like 1 page is completely blacked out and another 6 are about 95% blacked out.

[uponit7771]

6. 1/3 is still not good

[BumRushDaShow]

7. I think some of that were reference pages for witnesses/court cases

But I recall Barr stumbling and mumbling at the end and during questioning about all the other "investigations" going on justifying the redactions (where he kept trying to find other synonymous terms to use to describe them other than using "investigation" and "criminal" ) -i.e., the stuff that he originally omitted from his earlier bullshit statements about "no collusion".

[coti]

2. Looks like a solid 40-50 pages' worth of redactions

That's a fuckload of information not being told to us.

[MelissaB]

4. Here is what Pro Publica calculated

Link to tweet

[BumRushDaShow]

8. Probably meaning 6% of the total text

from all of the pages redacted vs number of pages with some kind of redaction.

[Tom Rinaldo]

9. What matters is WHAT was redacted. Select portions were heavily redacted

I agree that having over 90% of the report unredacted leaves a lot of detailed investigating available for us all to sift trough. In that regard it could have been a lot worse, but I suspect that Barr knew he couldn't get away with wholesale massive redactions. Tactically he may be hiding some of the parts worst to Trump, and hoping that because a large percentage of the report is unredacted people won't push as hard to unveil the still secret parts.

[defacto7]

10. It reminds me of a photo montage where hundreds of photos

make one larger image. Now if the redactions formed the face of tRump we'd have something interesting.

Well, maybe it does...