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It's a matter of official policy to include legal loopholes that enable the Federal government to assert its power rather than comply with the law.
by ihsw 13y ago
It's a matter of official policy to include legal loopholes that enable the Federal government to assert its power rather than comply with the law.
- 001sky 13y agoThis would be an interesting fodder for case studies... Any empirical examples for benchmarking?
- jmduke 13y agoTake my advice with a grain of salt, but I think asking for legal analysis from Hacker News is like asking for technological analysis from Seeking Alpha.
- ionforce 13y agoI'm curious what you mean when you say "official policy". Did you mean, that's how the machine works, people will always find/create loopholes. Or did you mean there is a technical provision somewhere that somehow mandates the existence of such loopholes?
- moocowduckquack 13y agoCatch22
- inopinatus 13y ago"Bernard, the Official Secrets Act is not to protect secrets, it is to protect officials."[1] [1] Sir Humphrey Appleby, Jobs for the Boys (e/o "Yes Minister"), Jay A and Lynn J, BBC; first broadcast April 7, 1980.
- throwaway987654 13y agoI don't know about UK law, but that behavior is in direct contravention of of the executive order establishing the classification system. "In no case shall information be classified ... in order to conceal ... administrative error; prevent embarrassment ..." See section 1.7(a) of http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13526 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13526