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The Heavily Redacted World of the FBI's Tracking Technology Unit (muckrock.com)
v3rgEz writes: If you search the FBI website for details the Tracking Technology Unit, nothing shows up: They have no official home page, their leadership is not mentioned, and the few public mentions of the group seem to be at court appearances where members explain that information they gather cannot be released publicly. But a recent FOIA request for information on the FBI's shuttered warrantless GPS tracking program shed a little more light on this secretive unit, whose motto is "Factum Non Verba": Deeds, not Words.
Do they have the gold-lame spandex suits and cool motorcycles too?
Deeds Not Words
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
How about "Mendacium non veritum"... "Lies, not truth".
Very little of what the government does should be secret, all of that should be confined to foreign intelligence operations, and no domestic law enforcement agency should be operating in the shadows. You took an oath, you traitorous pieces of shit.
The [redacted] works hand-in-hand with other government agencies, including [redacted], to provide real-time [redacted] to [redacted] threats both on- and off-line. Because of the growing threats of [redacted] in our increasingly globalized society, the [redacted] performs large-scale [redacted] to support the functionality needed to [redacted] [redacted]. If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear, [redacted].
Always a bad sign when the Federales whip up a slogan for themselves - doubly so if it's in fucking Latin. A little pomp and circumstance to round off the sharp edges of the police state.
There were no words - since their "deeds" appeared (from TFA) to consist of redacting over 300 pages of what he did request, (which was pretty innocuous and non-specific, BTW; he just asked what TOWNS the program had been active in...)
They then fill-in with a bunch of boilerplate to look like they had actually complied with the request.
Bad-faith bureaucratic stonewalling at its finest.
The main payload in the article is that the dude infers that a program that was declared illegal was simply repackaged and buried deeper, hence the desire to not give away too many details since they'll probably being doing the same old....
I'm happy to pay my taxes to live in a state of law, since democracy cannot exist without it.
But I'm increasingly of the impression that I'm getting short changed on both.
"I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it."
US judge and judicial philosopher Learned Hand (1872-1961).
Prove anything by multiplying Huge Number times Tiny Number
At other times, cooling their heels in a jail cell contemplating the judges contempt order for refusing to release information.
That's a world I could happily live in.
Have gnu, will travel.
Anyone else notice that the vast majority of those pages are marked as unclassified and/or non-secret yet severely redacted?
This is not at all unusual. Sometimes documents are declassified because the content is no longer considered sensitive. Sometimes documents are declassified by redacting the sensitive content. More information here.
As far as I can tell, the markings AC is talking about are not declassifications, the documents are actually marked unclassified. There are reason codes given for the redactions, though I don't know what those align with.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
As far as I can tell, the markings AC is talking about are not declassifications, the documents are actually marked unclassified. There are reason codes given for the redactions, though I don't know what those align with.
Well yes, the documents are actually marked unclassified, because they have been declassified. Documents that have been declassified, whether due to being redacted or because the information previously considered sensitive has been determined to no longer be sensitive, should either be marked unclassified or have no classification markings. To the best of my knowledge, documents bearing classified markings are never intentionally made public by the government.
"Acta Non Verba", not "Factum Non Verba". Geez.
Liberty - Security - Laziness - Pick any two.
BUT, information that is declassified will have the original classification marking, but crossed out. In this case it is marked as unclassified, and there is no other classification marking.
http://www.archives.gov/resear...
Items are absolutely declassified after a certain amount of time, the national archives has a whole division dedicated to this activity.
Here is an example of a declassified document, you can see the classification of Top Secret is crossed out.
https://nsarchive.files.wordpr...
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Items are absolutely declassified after a certain amount of time, the national archives has a whole division dedicated to this activity.
Yes, some items are scheduled for declassification after either 10 or 25 years. Some aren't.
Here is an example of a declassified document, you can see the classification of Top Secret is crossed out.
I'm sure you noticed that the example document is over 50 years old (and appears to have been redacted with white-out). The rules have changed since then. 18 CFR 3a.31 - "Classification markings and special notations" has the details, but specifically, "When classification changes are made, the classification markings themselves will be changed or canceled, and each copy or item of the material will be marked with the citation of authority."
By the way, congratulations on posting without triggering a diatribe by the hosts file guy.
50 years is the automatic declassification period for TS labeled items. My curiosity about that document is that it is both marked "Secret" and "Top Secret" as well as says to not automatically declassify, which is unusual to me.
APK still stalks me and will occasionally respond, but I and others were finally able to successfully get him to give up on the constant attack by having his hero (who deemed his code "safe") contact him about the issue he was making of himself and explain why it wasn't helping his cause.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?