I wasn’t joking, alashttps://twitter.com/soncharm/status/1260742489381711872 …
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well, they‘re not allowed to arbitrarily redact. every black-out has a little citation to the legal provision that permits them to do this. it‘s how one can intuit which redactions are „China“ (the referenced provision is ‚could harm international relations‘).
if they overreach here, their redactions will be overturned in court. but, another thing is, half the correspondence is totally blacked out. the leaker (who seems to have worked in haste) only scanned the non-blacked pages.
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i strongly suspect some of the redacted pages are the ostensibly ‚secret‘ pandemic data forwarded from China by their junior prof informant from Nottingham Ningbao University.
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Also, is it known how/why this Mayer guy got in touch with the health agency in the first place? Is he just friends w/someone there? Or should we be asking whether he was also contacting CDC etc as well? (Or maybe someone like him?)
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Hmm. What is the actual court proceeding/lawsuit about? (I guess is something that makes it different from just a FOIA request from the public/a journalist)
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As for Niko Härting‘s broader strategy, I‘m not sure, but the emails were released to him, though not to the public generally, in redacted form after proceedings on the basis of the Informationsfreiheitsgesetzt - a direct equivalent of FOIA.
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