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'National secrecy' is not a new concept however since 9/11 it has been used as a paintbrush for broad-sweeping and baseless applications, and this case is just
by ihsw 14y ago
'National secrecy' is not a new concept however since 9/11 it has been used as a paintbrush for broad-sweeping and baseless applications, and this case is just another example of that extra-judicial nonsense.
Wikimedia was perfectly within their right to tell the DCRI to pound sand, and when DCRI threatened an unrelated individual then they lost their credibility.
- mseebach 14y ago> and this case is just another example of that extra-judicial nonsense We don't actually know that, this is an assumption. > when DCRI threatened an unrelated individual then they lost their credibility. Yes, obviously, DCRI bungled the handling of the case. That doesn't make the case meritless.
- ihsw 14y agoThe case still has merit, I am in no way debating that, however DCRI has to maintain a relationship with Wikimedia (and other similar organizations) and this callous disregard for that relationship is unsettling to say the least.