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Longtime reporters who cover the NSA know that any time we ask the obstinate spy agency for information, were 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?
Thats 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 Smiths 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
(25,311 posts)It's corrupt beyond repair.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Thing creates the impression that We the People, instead of being the Government, are now its suspected enemies.
And what GeorgeGist said.
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)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"
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)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
(12,151 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)& Rec !!!
JEB
(4,748 posts)Obviously have too much money and time on their hands.
johnnyreb
(915 posts)pa28
(6,145 posts)Savannahmann
(3,891 posts)That they're that stupid, or that they're serious.