By releasing a report documenting its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election — and any links between that interference and the campaign of President Trump — the Republican majority on the House Intelligence Committee planted a flag in defense of the president. This article is about how the report redacts the names of people involved in the investigation even when the person being mentioned is immediately obvious. The (U) indicates that the information is unclassified, but there are still redactions — in this case, ones that are easy to crack. After Schiller testified before the House committee, his comments about having rejected the overture with the prostitutes were widely reported. One guess is that different parts of the report were given to different people to redact, leading to the differences.

Source: Washington Post April 27, 2018 15:57 UTC