[Infowarrior] - NSA redacts public talking points

[Richard Forno]

NSA Releases Heavily Redacted Talking Points: Say It's Hard To Watch Public Debate On Its Efforts

from the oh-really? dept

After receiving a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from Jason Smathers, via Muckrock, the NSA has released a series of "talking points." What's incredible is that the talking points themselves are heavily redacted. Considering they're all about what to tell the press, you have to wonder how they could possibly include anything that should be redacted. It seems that, by definition, the info included in the talking points should be public. The only reason to redact is embarrassment. The snippets you can read are sort of random boosterism about how awesome the NSA is... if only they could tell us.

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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121119/11130221094/nsa-releases-heavily-redacted-talking-points-say-its-hard-to-watch-public-debate-its-efforts.shtml

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