Thursday, May 29, 2014

FOIA Follies

Q: What does "freedom of information" mean?

A: The government is free to steal your information, while you are free to request the government to tell you what they have done. And the government is free to tell you that not only does it not have to comply with your request, but that even discussing why they don't would be an exceptionally grave threat to "national security":


What kind of horseshit is that?

I think that in such matters we should replace the term "national security" with the term "continuity of government (COG)". And the context in which COG should be  understood is "if we found out what these motherf-ckers were doing they'd all be put in jail.

No comments:

Post a Comment