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First 100 Pages of Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File Released
- kefs 13y agoWhile this is a great start, the majority appears to be just evidence inventory. There are some good parts around pg18, which is weirdly continued around pg97, along with an interesting, albeit heavily-redacted, interview on pg98.
- unclebucknasty 13y agoQuestion for anyone who might know: does a judge sign off on what is redacted and the justification for doing so? Redacting names of investigators, etc. makes sense here, but when entire paragraphs are redacted, it makes you wonder if FOIA requests are really worthwhile?
- kibibu 13y agoNot an answer, but this might tell you whether FOIA requests are much good: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/05/justice-department-complies-with-foia-by-releasing-completely-redacted-document/ http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/05/justice-departm...
- unclebucknasty 13y agoWow. I think that's pretty much the answer. Thanks.
- aquaroris 13y agoNevertheless, we have a greater resolution on the kind of information that is sensitive to governments.
- thezach 13y agothe one thing I can conclude from reading this.... is the secret service needs a serious technology upgrade
- dev1n 13y agoOr at the very least someone who can accurately place a piece of paper on a photo copier.
- jrockway 13y agoIf you're good at placing a piece of paper on a photocopier, don't you think you can find a better job than placing pieces of paper on a photocopier?
- luciusism 13y agoIn other words, the Peter Principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle
- rhizome 13y agoI'm sure a lot of it works fine within the agencies, it's just the translation process to "muggle" where the problems coincidentally appear.
- saucetenuto 13y agoI've heard that that actually varies a lot; sometimes you're working with the world's biggest data center, sometimes it's 30 guys with a building full of cabinets and a single TRS-80 in a closet.
- anigbrowl 13y agoBudgets are tight, FOIA compliance is way down the list. Congress likes keeping the executive branch on short rations, and legal stuff like this is a cost center.
- alan_cx 13y agoIf they were asked to supply the White House with photocopies of non controversial documents, would the photocopies look like that? I'm, (perhaps wrongly) assuming not. So to me, it hints at a level of contempt for having to comply. In other words, doing a slap dash crappy job because doing it annoys the person tasked with it or authorizing it. Like a kid who is told to clean it's bedroom and then doing it sloppily because it doesn't want to do it.
- jeremycole 13y agoThey made so much more work for themselves in redacting by scanning at a slight angle...
- ars 13y agoThere is no them. I can just imagine the redactor cursing out the idiot who scanned this for him.