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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
"Acta Non Verba", not "Factum Non Verba". Geez.
Liberty - Security - Laziness - Pick any two.