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The long awaited release would happen as planned, at the last minute the president blocked the release of thousands of records, bowing to pressure from the cia and fbi to keep the heavily redacted documents secret, writing, i have no choice but to accept those redactions rather than allow potentially irreversible harm to our nation's security placing the bulk of the files under a six-month review. >> has a huge disappointment and total mess. you can't imagine a more disorderly release of this documents about a turning point in american history. >> reporter: of more than 2,800 documents posted ...

The creation of the fisa court at the end of the carter administration. watched it for many years when i was associate attorney. the court functions in a responsible way. the reality is, keeping these documents secret is enormously important to protecting the methods by which we find these people who are coming here to try to kill us. it's enormously important to protect the identity of the people who are given the information to us. i've written i don't know, 100 of these things and it's very hard to write them and be completely careful about preserving identity. have you to give information....

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