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Leave it to Mr. Barr to make the redacted report available as non-searchable PDF. But someone’s already made a searchable version. Browsing in a cursory way, I found pages 1–2, 8, 156–158, and 182 in Volume II of special interest, along with this scene of On the Waterfront pathos, as recorded by a witness, Volume II, page 63:
“This is terrible Jeff. It’s all because you recused. AG is supposed to be most important appointment. Kennedy appointed his brother. Obama appointed Holder. I appointed you and you recused yourself. You left me on an island. I can’t do anything.”I believe the word the president was looking for is marooned.
I wonder what accounts for that little artifact in the bottom right corner of my screenshot. It’ll be in your copy of the report too. None genuine without this mark?
[On the Waterfront: “You was my brother, Charley, you shoulda looked out for me a little bit.”]
I don't understand why Barr (or anyone else) was allowed to redact any part of the report. It is a tax-payer funded government document, which has protections against this sort of tom-foolery. Once the report is submitted, it has to stand as is, flaws and all.
ReplyDeleteSomebody has greased that report with snake oil.
Ha! Non-searchable makes it much more difficult for the public and press to find what they would like to read which is what some want. As a friend of mine remarked, "figured it would be released on a Thursday before basically a holiday weekend. Gets buried in the news cycle."
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link to the searchable version!
Kirsten
PS I forgot to add that in 1775 in this week Paul Revere made his ride and the Minutemen met the Redcoats in the battles of Lexington and Concord.
ReplyDeleteI thought that was most apropos!
Check out Micheal Beschloss' wonderful twitter account recounting what happened in history.
Kirsten
Martha, I hope that at some point we’ll see it all.
ReplyDeleteKirsten, thanks for the Twitter tip. And yes, the timing of this release is ridiculously transparent.
I think this is one story that won't get buried, unless Trumpity comes out with another outrageous threat as a distraction. With some luck, maybe the press will ignore his rants and stick to the real news.
ReplyDeleteI hope.
Some of the redactions seem to suggest that there’s a lot more to come. It’s not going away.
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