No, the minister was not receiving briefings on these reports.
Let me go to the point about blacked out and not blacked out. I want to back away from this particular case and just talk about what happens when redactions are done. A person looking at a report to decide what to redact out and what to keep in will look at things such as how old the information is, how important that information is. By releasing it, would we perhaps endanger our ability to deal with the government about whom we're speaking? Would it compromise somebody from whom that information came and so on? There is a time element there that is evident in what you are citing here with these particular reports, but I'm backing away from that and just talking about generic reports.
As I said earlier, there is time. There is circumstance. There is context. There is what we are trying to do vis-à-vis a particular country or in a particular country and how the release of that information might compromise our ability to do it, and there is the discretion of the individual officer. All of these things play into it.
It doesn't surprise me that you can read one from 2003 and one from 2004 and find some things in and some things out.