Thread: Feds Embrace Lying in Response to Public-Records Requests

This is the opposite direction we should be heading!

I always wondered about this. What is to stop them from lying about having certain information. lol

Still, the fact that it's going to be law that they can basically lie about having it is just fucked up.

This should be the main gathering point for Occupy protestors; "The Governments should be working for the PEOPLE, not themselves or corporations!"

THis has been going on for a while now hasn't it? I didn't read the article, is this just passing a law that says it's ok for them to do it?

Originally Posted by StonedApe

THis has been going on for a while now hasn't it? I didn't read the article, is this just passing a law that says it's ok for them to do it?

Yeah. Basically, before, it was a matter of them having to "neither confirm nor deny" the existence of something that's on public record. Now, it's ok for them to say that something, which is supposed to be public record, flat-out 'doesn't exist.'

Wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Governments are fucked up.

And, to be clear, it's just a proposal, at the moment. It hasn't actually been implemented....yet.

This is why Wikileaks needs to exist. The more they suppress what is supposed to be public information, the greater the need for free press sites.

Yes and I've just heard that wikileaks will be shut down if they don't get enough funding before the end of the year. Apparently there are many bank or online sites willing to process their donation money.

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

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So now we've gotten to the point where the feds don't even have to pretend they aren't lying to the public, anymore?

At this point, it should go without saying how a legal proposal by the fed confesses practiced realities fundamental to the fed.

Originally Posted by tommo

Yes and I've just heard that wikileaks will be shut down if they don't get enough funding before the end of the year. Apparently there are many bank or online sites willing to process their donation money.

There are still enough of them that will. Wikileaks, I'm sure won't shut down.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

There are still enough of them that will. Wikileaks, I'm sure won't shut down.

Assange was just on the news the night before I wrote that, saying it will be gone by the end of this year if they don't get enough funding.