[lbo-talk] Not a good day for the redacters ...

[Jordan Hayes]

"SGRENA REPORT GOODIES....The U.S. military released a report last week
clearing American troops in the March gunfire incident that injured
Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena and killed Nicola Calipari, an
Italian intelligence agent, as they were driving to the Baghdad airport.
Italian reaction has been outraged, and the Italian government is
expected to issue a report on Monday contradicting many of the U.S.
findings.

But here's a question: do you think the Italian computer whizzes will be
any more competent than their American counterparts when they release
their report? The U.S. report is full of redactions, as you can see in
the picture above, but once again an American agency has used the
searchable PDF format to distribute a report, and all you have to do is
save the report as a text file in order to recover all the redacted
parts."

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