An anonymous reader writes: Did you ever wonder what our government wants to keep secret — and what courts allow them to keep secret? ...
I have found, read, and excerpted below the portion that the Second Circuit tried to take back. My judgment is that the material was sealed, not to protect anyone from harm, but to protect the government from embarrassment. ...
The other thing you notice is, I believe, far more significant — which is why I put it in bold type. Namely, you have an FBI agent who admits that he threatened to ensure that a suspect's family would be tortured by a foreign government.
Somehow, I think that's the reason the information was submitted under seal.