During Sunshine Week, MuckRock Looks At Some of the All-Time Greatest Redactions (muckrock.com) 42
v3rgEz writes: It's currently Sunshine Week, a chance to celebrate government transparency, or, this year, the lack thereof, as it came out that the Obama administration secretly undermined Congressional FOIA reform despite pledges to be the "most transparent administration in history." Transparency site MuckRock has compiled a list of the all-time most egregious redactions to honor the administration's hard work.
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Especially as there's a pretty good chance the next President will have directly benefited from this administration's lack of transparency, and in fact went to great lengths to violate standing policy in order to be even less transparent while working in the administration.
Clinton: Don't write. It could get subpeonaed! (Score:2)
Clinton knows how to avoid responding to FOIIA requests. Don't create any documents, don't write anything down , she says.
In a PBS interview, Jim Lehrer asked her, âoeAre you keeping a diary, you keep good notes of whatâ(TM)s happening?â
Clinton responded, âoeHeavens no! It could get subpoenaed! I donâ(TM)t write anything down.â
That solves both problems, criminal subpoenas and public information requests. Of course, sometimes her legal documents just go missing for two years,
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Maybe he was redacted.
Excessive censorship (Score:3)
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Knowledge is power. They don't want the people to have any of it.
In all fairness, most people don't want to do the work and thinking required to gain the knowledge with which to hold their share of the power.
Power (or the illusion of it) they do want; but not if it requires anything more than a Tweet, a Facebook post, or (in my case) an AC rant on Slashdot.
More power to those few journalists remaining who are willing to do this work for the good of us all. They're the real MVP's.
Obama also started the war on whistleblowers (Score:5, Insightful)
"On his watch, there have been eight prosecutions under the 1917 Espionage Act – more than double those under all previous presidents combined."
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/16/whistleblowers-double-standard-obama-david-petraeus-chelsea-manning
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Didn't you ever wonder what's in a bottle of "Ranch" dressing?
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http://bigthink.com/strange-ma... [bigthink.com]
Feel free to read up on it and enlighten yourself.
sunshine week? (Score:3)
"It's currently Sunshine Week"
Well here its currently cloudy and later on today theres a good chance of rain, with it turning to a mixture of snow and rain tomorrow morning In the northeast of the state theyre expecting multi inch accumulations.
It is March after all, and spring doesn't officially start til sunday/
So who picks these weeks anyway.
Surely, Slashdot Beta is in there... (Score:2)
RE: Request (Score:1)
Please be advise
Regards
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Manufacturing Consent (Score:1)
Yes, much recommended. Here's a link for the lazy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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We have an entire criminal justice system that by a nearly 3:1 margin incarcerates one race above all others, with no accountable reason for doing so.
Yeah, it's not like they broke laws or anything. Those darn racist bastards randomly select 4 people an hour to go to jail, 3 of them being black.
Good point! In many cases, they indeed broke no laws.
I'm just going to go ahead and assume that the term "systemic racism" is not in your lexicon.
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Part of the disproportionately high black incarceration rate is due to systemic racism (although conviction and sentencing rates are, to my knowledge, not *that* biased - biased, yes, but not nearly enough to explain all of it) and part is actuall
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You're free to try any of those things. You mistake the terms freedom and liberty, you're not alone. You're free, for instance, to get a plane and pilot and strap up and do that. You're just going to face a whole bunch of consequences.
I'll try to help you out. This is one of my favorite topics...
I am free to kill you, I am not at liberty to do so. If you try to physically harm me and there is no other recourse available then I have a right to kill you.
The words aren't really synonymous. It is essential, for
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The situation with Cuba is changing. It wasn't long ago that my brother and his wife went and could have wound up in big trouble (I think the trip had something to do with baseball research). It's opening up now, which is great, but public perception hasn't caught up with the change yet.
There's also a difference between wearing a firearm wherever you want and traveling where you want. There are reasons to restrict handguns that don't apply to restricting travel.
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our law operates with impunity in nearly every soverign nation, so powerful as to force sweden to ground the flight of a diplomat without any discussion by american news or accountability by any politician.
That wasn't just a diplomat, that was the freaking president of a Country!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident
I'd love to see the repercussions from a forced landing of AF1...
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Ad hominem much? I don't have a horse in this race, never read any Chomsky, neither Marxist nor John Bircher, but damn you sound stupid.
Re:Obama has turned out to be nothing less than (Score:4, Insightful)
But for who? China? The former USSR in absentia? The new lslamic state?
Those with gold, who make rules.
All-Time Greatest Redactions (Score:2)
http://www.dod.gov/pubs/foi/Re... [dod.gov]
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Your username is apropos, considering the comment and the PDF located at your link. I was greatly amused and it's about what I was expecting. I've seen another, no idea what it actually was about but I actually think the requesting party believed it might have been about aliens (I kid you not), and it was almost entirely blacked out. Needless to say, the redacted document did, as I recollect, made the interested parties all the more certain of the conspiracy to hide alien/government contact, information, kn
(b)(3)/26 USC 6103 (Score:4, Funny)
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In (b1) sobering finds you.