Nobody (or NLT at least) -
Everybody,
To prevent myself from bending a perfectly good thread on Wedtech, I
am migrating it to FRIAM and putting my own spin on it.
I'm glad to hear that WedTech is a "Silly Talk" free zone. I'm doing my
part by not being on the list (to the logical conclusion of not hearing
about the talks when they happen!).
My mind is a fact-free zone on this issue, but here is my
believed-in-imagining concerning how AP got the story. Somebody at CIA
was enormously proud of what "his team" had accomplished and could
not bear the idea that that such achievements would never be known.
"What's the harm?"he thought. The whole operation is over!" But, of
course, the harm was potentially enormous. (I assume you don't need
me to spell that out.)
Now, stipulating .....STIPULATING .... That these facts are as I have
imagined them, would you all agree that that person is dangerous and
needs to be relieved of his/her duties ... at least until s/he can be
retrained?
And having agreed to that, what powers would */_you_/* grant to the
Government in their search for whoever that person is.
I think this is an academic (not in the
to-be-dismissed-by-Doug-who-is-absent way) question since I think we
have plenty of evidence that the US Government (and myriad other
governments, large US corps and large multinational corps) does not wait
to be granted *any* powers to do this kind of search (and destroy?)
mission.
The only thing keeping Julian Assange (not a US Citizen, not acting on
US soil) from being lynched *inside* the US is the capricious aid and
protection he has received by a small but sovereign nation which has
tasted the fruits of our "help" in the past. And the only thing
keeping Bradley Manning (who patently IS a US Citizen, etc.) from being
rendered (drawn and quartered?) to GitMo (or worse) is the publicity
surrounding the whole situation. I'm conflicted on my support of these
two characters, but I think if not for the high profile they attained
domestic and international, they would be nothing but charred bodies
hanging from a bridge somewhere friendly to our Black Ops friends.
And then we have Plaim and Wilson as poster children of "good
intentions" vs "abuse of power" living in our midst.
Hmmm.... "relieved of duties" and "retrained"... I need to get my
NewSpeak dictionary to look up the actual contemporary meaning of those
words... I think they don't mean what you think they mean? <grin>
That off my chest, I think I appreciate your implied point, and I don't
know the answer... which makes me think that *somehow* we are asking
the wrong question(s)?
Just mumbling,
- Steve
(How many Megapixels can you fit on the head of a pin, I mean golfball?)
Just asking.
Nick
*From:*Wedtech [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of
*Roger Critchlow
*Sent:* Wednesday, May 15, 2013 11:27 AM
*To:* WedTech
*Subject:* Re: [WedTech] Blind drop box server?
Funny you should ask, this just popped on my twitter feed:
http://inagist.com/all/334673594560946176/?utm_source=inagist&utm_medium=rss
It's a blind drop coded by Aaron Swartz for the New Yorker, of all the
publications that needs secure anonymous tips to survive.
-- rec --
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Tom Johnson <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
OK, so here's a project -- or at least a discussion topic -- for Wedtech:
Given the Dept.. of Justice "spying" on AP reporters, and no doubt
others, how could we construct a web site drop box that would allow
anyone to submit tips and documents in a manner that would not be
traceable?
-tom johnson (in Uzbekistan)
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