National security claim rejected by judge in bid to redact Galloway emails http://www.rabble.ca/news/2010/04/government-lawyers-failed-redact-galloway-emails

What would certainly be potentially embarrassing to Kenney, and something he would not like to see made public, is his communications officer's references to him and assurances to officials that Kenney would not overrule their strenuous efforts to ban Galloway, which he had the right to do as minister, though not the inclination.

Covering up the perceived involvement of a minister in what is a legal process of banning an individual can smack of political interference. And the possibility, as shown in the emails, that Galloway's privacy rights had been contravened because of a newspaper article that was published before he was given official word of his being banned from Canada, is also not good.

And simply through the act of attempting to redact this information, the government, through its lawyers, seemed to be less than open and transparent. If all this is the case, it is a frivolous use of the process of redaction, an important tool used by governments to keep the secrets of State to themselves -- particularly popular, it seems, in this age of Orwellian paranoia and conflict in which we find ourselves.