Nearly one entire section of the report, describing the actions of foreign governments in advance of the attacks, has been cut from the final report at the insistence of the intelligence agencies, officials said.
So what about the Saudis?
Some mysteries from after the attacks will apparently remain, like the question of how 15 young men from Saudi Arabia could join in a suicide conspiracy to attack the World Trade Center and the Pentagon without the knowledge of the Saudi government.
Still, at least the redaction will be visible (except the invisible redaction, of course).
Unlike most other government intelligence reports, how much has been edited out will be publicly known because the final report shows the deleted material, with the actual words blacked out by a marker.
Leaving open the question of who has the original copies, and will be able to read them in their entirety. (And look for plenty of stories that fill in the blanks.)
So, who's going for a Pulitzer by giving the people who paid for it (you and me) a little pre-publication taste? You'd think this report was a Harry Potter book the way it's been embargoed.
UPDATE: Thanks alert reader Technical Blandishmentiser, I took out a slam on the Saudis.