Comments on: FBI responds to ACLU FOIA request...with 111 blank pages

By: Dean Yenawine

Dean Yenawine — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:29:00 +0000

They say it’s to keep track of terrorists, when it’s our government that terrorizes us the most, in violation of our constitutionally protected liberties. Ben Laden, and Al Qaeda win, when our government use them as an excuse to destroy all the freedoms our country was built on.

By: Sergio Bortolotto

Sergio Bortolotto — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:10:00 +0000

Gary Webb, Danny Casolaro, Col. James Sabow, John R Stockwell

By: thecactusman17

thecactusman17 — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 02:37:00 +0000

The disappeared?

Name me one person who you have reasonable evidence as having been captured by the FBI/CIA in the US, secretly and without warrant. Or alternatively, one large scale raid where most or all witnesses were killed to prevent leaks. It’s REALLY hard, if you haven’t noticed over the last decade and a half of twitter and facebook, to prevent these sorts of things from becoming public.

By: fearandloathing

fearandloathing — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 23:36:00 +0000

My guess is that the FBI’s lawyers told them they couldn’t just say “F U” under FOIA. But they could get away with telling them “F U” via blacking out most of the pages.

By: Rogelio Descartes

Rogelio Descartes — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:52:00 +0000

llevenlos a la corte por violacion de la constitucion..

By: ExNuke

ExNuke — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:43:00 +0000

Likely they are taking all the cellphone data from everyone and storing it, to be used later when they create an excuse.

By: ExNuke

ExNuke — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:41:00 +0000

No, the KGB was shut down, they reopened as the FSB. And it is more properly the КГБ and ФСБ. Of course the faces and methods are the same, only the names were changed.

By: Larry Vaughn

Larry Vaughn — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 22:46:00 +0000

Likely they are taking all the cellphone data from everyone and storing it, to be used later if they feel a need.

By: donovan acree

donovan acree — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:42:00 +0000

This article has multiple spelling errors. It’s not FBI. The correct spelling for secret surveillance of citizens is KGB.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:12:00 +0000

“All your movements are belong to us!”

By: Florian Bösch

Florian Bösch — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:10:00 +0000

Nice to see that the FBI is now hiring from 4chan…

By: agonist

agonist — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 02:45:00 +0000

It’s all fun & games until you become one of the disappeared. America has deviated greatly from its promise of liberty in the last 12 years.

By: TacoChuck

TacoChuck — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 02:21:00 +0000

I do not even get why it is blacked out, at the top it clearly says unclassified/law enforcement sensitive, which means it is not secret and they can send it out any local yahoo ‘sheriff’ they want who really has no obligation to keep it private, although it is requested they do so.

By: Andrew Singleton

Andrew Singleton — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:20:00 +0000

Did anyone check to see if there was any sort of difference between the marked out space and letters or was it just ‘we’re gonna use up /SO/ many black ink cartridges to print big black blobs’?

By: EH

EH — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:38:00 +0000

Contempt of Citizen.

By: jimkirk

jimkirk — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:25:00 +0000

Come on, you just have to read between the lines.

But seriously, I remember a few years ago some group was issued a redacted document like that. To save paper, it was sent as a PDF. Someone opened it in an editor and was able to remove the big black rectangles, revealing the original text. I suppose they’re too clever to make that mistake again…

By: liquidself

liquidself — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:19:00 +0000

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/arts/design/jenny-holzer-endgame.html?_r=0

By: Finnagain

Finnagain — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:39:00 +0000

Epic trolling. Nicely played, FBI.

By: Frank W

Frank W — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:35:00 +0000

You mean the Pentagon? Yeah, sure.

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:31:00 +0000

The Republicans won’t let them build a Death Star. It would create too many union jobs.

By: Lurking_Grue

Lurking_Grue — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:53:00 +0000

This may just qualify as performance art now.

By: oasisob1

oasisob1 — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:49:00 +0000

Of course not. The one they have now works perfectly.

By: John Irvine

John Irvine — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:45:00 +0000

I guess I would prefer a redacted document like this to a straight up bald-faced lying denial. Like the one the administration recently did just this week: yeah right – they’re not building a Death Star.

By: awjt

awjt — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:42:00 +0000

Exactly, and they need to be put in their place.

By: oasisob1

oasisob1 — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:32:00 +0000

I think they are required to by law. Not that this helps in any way. Maybe they should ask for a less sensitive summary of the document? They’d get less information, but more words.

By: Jake0748

Jake0748 — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:29:00 +0000

Whoever made that hand-written note in the upper right corner forgot to cross the T.

By: Grahamers2002

Grahamers2002 — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:28:00 +0000

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By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:25:00 +0000

Basically the FBI is trolling.

By: Baldhead

Baldhead — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:18:00 +0000

always found releasing documents redacted like this is really a two fingers in your face “fuck you”. I honestly don’t get why anyone at all finds this acceptable. I’d rather be told “we can’t tell you” than get 50 blacked out pages.