NSA Mind-Bender: We Won’t Tell You What Info We Already Leaked to the Media

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Longtime reporters who cover the NSA know that any time we ask the obstinate spy agency for information, we’re probably going to hit a brick wall. But who would have thought that trying to obtain information about information the agency has already given us would lead to the same wall?

That’s what happened when the Federation of American Scientists filed a FOIA request with the Defense Department (of which the NSA is a part) earlier this year seeking information about any authorized leaks of intelligence made to the media during the previous 12 months.

The response they got (.pdf) from the National Security Agency might well have come from Winston Smith’s Ministry of Truth.

“The document responsive to your request has been reviewed by this Agency as required by the FOIA and has been found to be currently and properly classified in accordance with Executive Order 13526,” the letter read. “The document is classified because its disclosure could reasonably be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security.”

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http://www.wired.com/2014/10/nsa-mind-bender-wont-tell-info-already-leaked-media/

[GeorgeGist]

1. Tear it down.

It's corrupt beyond repair.

[Octafish]

2. Executive Order 13526

Thing creates the impression that We the People, instead of being the Government, are now its suspected enemies.

And what GeorgeGist said.

[SomethingFishy]

4. The hilarious thing when you look up Exec Order 13526 is,

that according to Wiki the order was issued in 2009 by Obama to "improve transparency and open-access to the Federal Government and the information it produces"

[Scuba]

3. ...

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. The NSA has mastered the art of gibberish.

I'll tell you something but I won't tell you that I told you something because if I told you that I told you then you would know that I told you.

[DirkGently]

6. More Orwellian than Orwell. n/t

[WillyT]

7. Jesus...

& Rec !!!

[JEB]

8. Cut their fucking budget.

Obviously have too much money and time on their hands.

[johnnyreb]

9. We have to get permission first.

[pa28]

10. Because that would be . . . telling.

[Savannahmann]

11. I don't know what is worse

That they're that stupid, or that they're serious.

[riderinthestorm]

12. AM K&R nt