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What it's time for is a change to the laws so that informing the public about what their public servants have been up to can be accomplished without fleeing the
by whatshisface 5y ago
What it's time for is a change to the laws so that informing the public about what their public servants have been up to can be accomplished without fleeing the country afterwards.
- im_down_w_otp 5y agoWhat's the enforcement mechanism for these laws? Who compels who to do what?
- Black101 5y agoI think that they have ultimate power and they even trump the constitution...
- whatshisface 5y agoOnly in the sense that any person has unlimited power and the ability to trump the constitution, insofar as they're not caught or not stopped if caught.
- nl 5y agoThey are just normal federal laws: > The United States does not have a British-style Official Secrets Act; instead, several laws protect classified information, including the Espionage Act of 1917, the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 and the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982.[1] The ALCU has a bunch of work[2] on this if you want to dig deeper. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information_in_the_... [2] https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/secrecy https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/secrecy