Bridgegate scandal defendants say critical evidence being withheld
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The sole legal reason in such a case of redacting or otherwise withholding the requested information is if the question of national security is involved. That is inconceivable in this situation.
Wrong Sancho! there are several exemptions under the federal FOIA laws, and for purposes of privacy being one of them, it requires redaction.
If the lawyers want to appeal the redactions, they must do so with the Agency that indeed did the redactions. In this case, it was probably the US Attorney’s Office
goes the running of the clock, while the governor continues his run for the presidency/ AG: the last thing he needs, at 2.5%, is this thing to get re- routed back to him,no?
There is no conceivable “privacy” issue.