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Yes, the US government is full of respectable agencies like the CIA, who obviously would never do something like spy on the team investigating their likely crim
by ObviousScience 12y ago
Yes, the US government is full of respectable agencies like the CIA, who obviously would never do something like spy on the team investigating their likely criminal actions, and attempt to dynamically reclassify materials so as to stall out the investigation team.
How could a citizen possibly think that government agencies aren't infallibly interested in the citizen's good and question secret block lists?
- tptacek 12y agoThe CIA doesn't have the authority to criminalize "protest-plans.ppt". They're part of the executive branch. To criminalize protest plans, Congress would need to pass a law, one that at the very least left room for executive branch rulemaking about which slide decks were or weren't criminal. And, of course, that law would not survive in court. Of course, you aren't talking about outlawing documents. You're suggesting a different case, one in which hashes of documents are used not for criminal investigations but to keep tabs on citizens. But that wasn't the case I was responding to.