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Re:Stop and Seize by loupereira on Sunday September 07, 2014 @09:09AM (#8281009)
In an era of budget shortfalls and market-based solutions, the American government is quickly becoming a for-profit enterprise at all costs.
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Re:Stop and Seize by pdkl95 on Sunday September 07, 2014 @05:39PM (#8282517)
It's been that way for a long time now. Just look at the giant freudian slip DOJ lawyers made during 'Jewel v. NSA' while trying to explain why the NSA should be able to retcon the public court transcript by claiming it was classified, ex post facto.

Apparently it was very important to keep various Snowden disclosures secret, because:

    DISCLOSURES THAT WE ARE CONVINCED THAT HAVE
    SERIOUSLY HARMED THE NATIONAL SECURITY OF
    THIS COMPANY
(caps in original)

Company? Country? I'm going with "Freudian slip of the century"

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140813/23203228207/unsea...

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