Mumbles
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Technically, Barr should only remove the names of innocent individuals who somehow got caught up in the story. So, like, Baron Trump would definitely be peripheral. Michael Cohen's receptionist would be peripheral. We'll have to see what Barr actually does, though. I'm certainly not going to predict it.
This, exactly.
Under any ordinary DoJ, redacting info on people who ultimately did nothing illegal - or anyone under 18 years of age - would be done responsibly and without any controversy.
This DoJ, however, is run by the henchman of a career criminal president who is known for pathological lying. Barr's previous role in a similar position was to "clean up" the Iran Contra affair, and according to the WP and the NYT, summaries have already been written by Mueller and his team specifically so that redactions would be unnecessary. People are right not to trust this redaction, specifically, because of the people doing the redacting.