Some six months after he issued his first request for documents concerning a planned cargo handling alliance between the ports of Tacoma and Seattle, an Olympia watchdog has received hundreds of emails and internal memorandums from the two ports.

But those documents have been so heavily edited and major portions deleted that they reveal little not already known about the process the two ports’ commissions used to reach agreement on the historic alliance.

In the end, the ports included with those documents a 76-page list of exemptions and legal reasoning about why large portions of the documents were deleted or blacked out.

More in The News Tribune