On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 11:48 PM, Rachael Tackett <[email protected]> wrote: > Open Technology Fund (OTF) is the US government program, which pretends not > to be a government program. OTF has financed projects such as Tor Project, > Signal, SubgraphOS, etc. Several years ago, the State Dept.'s Inspector > General's Office investigated and found out that Open Technology Fund was > breaking a bunch of federal laws on grant funding. > > Congress ordered the GAO (Government Accountability Office) to conduct an > audit of OTF. So, the GAO says they have an audit, but they cannot release > it to me because it might be classified by the Department of State. So, I > file a public records request, and the GAO gives me some bogus excuse about > "congressional records". So, I call the House and Senate Foreign Relations > Committees, and no one ever calls me back. > > Open code, with secret contracts and now a secret audit!
You need the title of the document, and what entity wrote it. Then google that. Take it to foia / muckrock / mandatory declassification review. If it's congressional research service or some other congress crap, bark at your congress reps. Here's another audit paid for by them... https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ricochet-encrypted-messenger-tackles-metadata-problem-head-on
