Redacted
Categories: Regulations
Dacted and then dacted again. It's that second dacting we're concerned with.
In fact, redacting was almost a full-time sport for CIA ops and politicians during the Cold War. It's still a common practice when G-People don't want voters to know about secrets they've traded in D.C.
Redacting means "crossing out." And it just means that someone has taken a big fat special ink pen and crossed out words, sentences, and phrases that refer to secrets the redacter doesn't want other to know...that even under inspection, it's impossible, pretty much, to make out the words below the redacting black lines.
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