{"id":64763,"date":"2019-04-21T04:28:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T04:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=64763"},"modified":"2019-04-21T04:28:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T04:28:05","slug":"expletives-asterisked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=64763","title":{"rendered":"Expletives asterisked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron <\/strong>&#8212; language, Sir, such language! ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>The most interesting redactions in the entire Mueller affair are these, signifying as they do the tenor of President Trump and his administration.<\/p>\n<p>The first redaction is not made under a claim of executive privilege:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/End-of-my-presidency.-Im-fed.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"338\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/End-of-my-presidency.-Im-fed.png 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/End-of-my-presidency.-Im-fed-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nor is the presidential attorney&#8217;s remark noted here redacted on grounds of attorney-client privilege:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/fed-sht.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"338\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/fed-sht.png 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/fed-sht-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Such language was already in Use in Nixon&#8217;s Oval Office (and no doubt before), and the words &#8220;expletive deleted&#8221; were familiar to me from that era in some ways so parallel to our own. &#8220;Redacted&#8221; however is the word bandied about in our own day, and it took me a while to realize that all those asterisks in fact represent &#8220;expletives redacted&#8221;.. <\/p>\n<p>Language, my enduring love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; language, Sir, such language! ] . The most interesting redactions in the entire Mueller affair are these, signifying as they do the tenor of President Trump and his administration. The first redaction is not made under a claim of executive privilege: Nor is the presidential attorney&#8217;s remark noted here redacted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,1314,630,145,1499,1804,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-donald-trump","category-language","category-nixon","category-redacted","category-screen-grab","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64763"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64770,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64763\/revisions\/64770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}