Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #governmentsecrecy, aggregated by home.social.
Trump promised transparency. His administration is waging war on FOIA.
President Donald Trump claimed in 2019 that he was “the most transparent president in history.” Throughout his second…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #CentralIntelligenceAgency #CIA #congress #doge #DonaldTrump #ElonMusk #espionage #espionageact #FOIA #Governmentsecrecy #richardnixon #SaudiArabia #secrecy #torture #Transparency #trump #TrumpAdministration #Vietnam #Yemen
https://www.europesays.com/3195394/
https://www.europesays.com/3195394/ Trump promised transparency. His administration is waging war on FOIA. #CentralIntelligenceAgency #CIA #congress #doge #DonaldTrump #ElonMusk #espionage #EspionageAct #FOIA #GovernmentSecrecy #RichardNixon #SaudiArabia #secrecy #torture #Transparency #trump #TrumpAdministration #Vietnam #Yemen
https://www.europesays.com/people/189954/ Trump promised transparency. His administration is waging war on FOIA. #CentralIntelligenceAgency #cia #Congress #DOGE #DonaldTrump #ElonMusk #espionage #EspionageAct #FOIA #GovernmentSecrecy #RichardNixon #SaudiArabia #secrecy #torture #Transparency #Trump #TrumpAdministration #Vietnam #Yemen
https://www.europesays.com/people/51005/ Donald Trump UFO Reveal: POTUS Claims Pilots ‘Saw Things You Wouldn’t Believe’ #Artemis2Crew #DeclassifiedVideos #DonaldTrump #GovernmentSecrecy #POTUS #PresidentOfTheUnitedStates #UFOFiles #UnidentifiedAerialPhenomena #USMilitaryPilots
3I/ATLAS Data: Harvard's Avi Loeb Critiques Government For 'Inappropriate' Secrecy
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=3iatlas-data-harvards-avi-loeb-critiques-government-for-inappropriate-secrecy
"Unveiling the Secrets: Avi Loeb's Quest for Cosmic Transparency"
#spaceexploration #governmentsecrecy #aviloeb
https://www.advocate.com/news/pentagon-restore-lgbtq-books-lessons “The judge also criticized the department for refusing to disclose information about the censorship campaign, writing that it was unconstitutional to limit access to information and then fault the plaintiffs for not having proof of the government’s actions.” #USPolitics #education #censorship #FreeSpeech #libraries #GovernmentSecrecy
Navy SEAL reportedly killed North Korean fishermen to hide a failed mission https://www.byteseu.com/1358475/ #Conflicts #Espionage #ForeignPolicy #GovernmentFailure #GovernmentSecrecy #Military #NationalSecurity #Navy #NorthKorea #secrecy #TrumpAdministration #War #World
"John L. Young, who died March 28 at age 89 in New York City, was among the first people to see the need for an online library of official secrets, a place where the public could find out things that governments and corporations didn’t want them to know. He made real the idea – revolutionary in its time – that the internet could make more information available to more people than ever before.
John and architect Deborah Natsios, his wife, in 1996 founded Cryptome, an online library which collects and publishes data about freedom of expression, privacy, cryptography, dual-use technologies, national security, intelligence, and government secrecy. Its slogan: “The greatest threat to democracy is official secrecy which favors a few over the many.” And its invitation: “We welcome documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide.”"
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/memoriam-john-l-young-cryptome-co-founder
#Cryptome #CivilLiberties #OpenGovernment #Surveillance #Privacy #NationalSecurity #FreedomOfExpression #Cryptography #GovernmentSecrecy #Intelligence
If TikTok poses a grave threat to national security, why are Canadians told they can keep using it?
#Canada #China #TikTok #SocialMedia #TikTokBan #NationalSecurity #InternetFreedom #Privacy #Transparency #DigitalPolicy #GovernmentSecrecy #GlobalRelations
https://the-14.com/if-tiktok-poses-a-grave-threat-to-national-security-why-are-canadians-told-they-can-keep-using-it/
A reminder to everyone that the UCP passed legislation that allows them to mandate caps on these negotiations by sending a letter to the school boards, but in the same law makes it illegal for anyone who knows about these letters to talk about them, even by simply acknowledging their existence.
The GoA is not protecting Alberta families and students here, but is the elephant at the table no one is allowed to talk about.
#UCPFail #NoAccountability #GovernmentSecrecy #ABPoli #ABLeg
NSW Police again the beneficiary of apparent legal double standards, as judicial hearings involving serious drink-driving charges against a senior officer receive extraordinary court secrecy. The court registrar attempted (and failed) to have the entire trial process conducted in the absence of media. Nonetheless, there is a 40 year court order suppressing the identity of the officer, longer secrecy than is granted even for cabinet discussions. The individual allegedly consumed approximately 24-36 standard drinks at a single event before driving and crashing his vehicle in a tunnel, then departing the scene before his blood alcohol could be tested.
A recent report from the police watchdog (LECC, see below) found that the senior detective was "treated more leniently in the way in which he was managed by his commander and in the police review of his driving”. It notes that other officers lost confidence in the integrity of their organisation as a result of this "favourable treatment".
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/17/extraordinary-secrecy-surrounds-court-details-of-senior-nsw-police-officer-charged-with-drink-driving-ntwnfb
(I would have used #InternetArchive for this weblink, but its save page feature is temporarily unavailable, apparently due to recent DDOS attacks)
#NSWpolice #NSWpol #Auspol #transparency #GovernmentSecrecy #SecrecyLaws #RuleOfLaw #DoubleStandards #corruption
Legal scholar Drew Yewchuk skewers the claim of Canadian rule of law and democracy by showing how routine non-compliance (i.e., lawlessness) by our governments subverts both. That's because there is no means of enforcing our laws on governments who break them.
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88372
#RuleOfLaw #Canada #cdnpoli #SpeciesAtRiskAct #AccessToInformation #GovernmentSecrecy
Absolutely endorse this column from Ed Keenan in the Star.
“The public is paying for the World Cup and Ontario Place redevelopment, so why are the deals secret?
When the costs and benefits of any government action are kept secret, how is our democratic system supposed to hold that government accountable?”
#Toronto #Ontario #TOPoli #ONPoli #FIFAWorldCup #OntarioPlace #FOIA #GovernmentSecrecy
The real failure of the Eglinton Crosstown isn’t the delays
OPINION: The project is years behind schedule. But the government’s decision to just stop talking about it is an even bigger cause for concern
https://www.tvo.org/article/the-real-failure-of-the-eglinton-crosstown-isnt-the-delays
#toronto #Ontario #EglintonCrosstown #CrosstownTO #TOPoli #TTC #Metrolinx #FOIA #GovernmentSecrecy #AccessToInformation