The Justice Department redacts portions of the ACLU's briefs that it deems inappropriate to release publicly for national security reasons. [To redact is to render portions of a document unreadable, often with a large, black marker, for confidentiality or national-security or other purposes. -ed]
The Justice Department redacted the following quote from an ACLU brief:
"The danger to political dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect 'domestic security.' Given the difficulty of defining the domestic security interest, the danger of abuse in acting to protect that interest becomes apparent."
The quote is from a Supreme Court case.
Is this a joke?
[via Orcinus. More at the Memory Hole]
