MetaFilter posts tagged with classified

(Still) Declassified.

availablelight — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:02:50 -0800

(Still) Declassified. "In January 2009, I had an idea; photograph people in their homes that have placed a wide variety of personal advertisements. Although I imagined most people wouldn’t want to give up their anonymity, I rightly imagined some would be willing to. " Mark Andrew's personal website couldn't handle the first FPP posted by UbuRoivas--nerve.com is now hosting 13 of these images (with accompanying craigslists ads). One image (still) possibly NSFW.

Just Following Orders

empath — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:49:46 -0800

Torture Memos Released

As we explained in the Section 2340A Memorandum, "pain and suffering" as used in Section 2340 is best understood as a single concept, not distinct concepts of "pain" as distinguished from "suffering"... The waterboard, which inflicts no pain or actual harm whatsoever, does not, in our view inflict "severe pain or suffering". Even if one were to parse the statute more finely to treat "suffering" as a distinct concept, the waterboard could not be said to inflict severe sufering. The waterboard is simply a controlled acute episode, lacking the connotation of a protracted period of time generally given to suffering.

Ambinder breaks it down, Greenwald rants.

"If you scratch a paranoid, you find a narcissist"

homunculus — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:10:28 -0800

What's the Big Secret? Four surveillance experts try to figure out what the NSA's superclassified wiretapping program really is (hint: it may have something to do with the filters). They don't seem to realize that this kind of reckless public discussion means some Americans are going to die. [Via Threat Level.]

Another Los Alamos Security Breach

empath — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:35:53 -0800

Tweakers with nuclear weapons technology Exactly what the world needs in these uncertain times.

Next step, X-ray specs!

nomis — Thu, 13 May 2004 00:35:40 -0800

Opacity no match for technology! A CS grad student comes up with a technique for restoring words that have been blacked out in classified documents.

Fox New now classified

caddis — Tue, 11 May 2004 12:37:35 -0800

Memo to soldiers: Do not read the Taguba report on the Fox News website, it is classified. I didn't know the Pentagon had a sense of humor.

skwm — Fri, 09 Mar 2001 14:37:16 -0800

Curiculum Vitae : Former marijuana smuggler.
From an advertisement in Toronto's Financial Post.

During this time I also co-owned and participated in the executive level management of 120 people worldwide in a successful pot smuggling venture..."

Warning: jpeg, 121kb

aurelian — Mon, 24 Jul 2000 00:03:46 -0800

Classified documents posted, greeted with big yawn. What I find interesting is... If these documents are so uninteresting, why were they classified? It kind of bolsters my opinion that most secrecy in government is not unlike Calvin in his treehouse with the sign that says "No Grils". It's all an exercise in in-group, out-group dynamics, and has little, if anything, to do with National Security. Which means this is a big deal after all, if you think about it...