{"id":248,"date":"2006-04-19T22:06:39","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T05:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/?p=248"},"modified":"2017-09-13T20:52:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T03:52:27","slug":"more-news-you-wont-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"More news you won&#8217;t see"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder why you hear about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, but never about this stuff?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/article.pl?sid=06\/04\/18\/1357247\">All-White Jury Acquit Milwaukee Police of Brutality Charges<\/a><br \/>\n(This link includes a rush transcript text and downloads of the story on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/index.shtml\">Democracy Now<\/a>.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/archives\/000416.php\"><span class=\"entry_title\">New White House Policy Chief Was &#8220;Brooks Brothers&#8221; Rioter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/blog\/secrecy\/2006\/04\/cia_expands_operational_file_s_1.html\">CIA Expands Operational File Secrecy<\/a><br \/>\nThis gets complicated, so I&#8217;ll encapsulate the story a bit with quotes from the article:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As they do every ten years, the CIA &#8220;conducted a review of its &#8216;operational files&#8217; last year.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>This refers to a file&#8217;s status as either &#8220;operational&#8221; or open to the public.<\/li>\n<li>Instead of removing files from operational status, the CIA &#8220;added twenty three new file category exemptions.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>In other words, they&#8217;ve just made <u>fewer<\/u> files available under the Freedom of Information Act.<\/li>\n<li>They also twisted the law to do it.\u00c2\u00a0 The statute addresses only the curtailing, not the extension, of a file&#8217;s operational status.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The next time you read the paper or fire up the tube, ask yourself:\u00c2\u00a0 Are you sure you know what&#8217;s going on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder why you hear about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, but never about this stuff? All-White Jury Acquit Milwaukee Police of Brutality Charges (This link includes a rush transcript text and downloads of the story on &#8220;Democracy Now.&#8221;) New White House Policy Chief Was &#8220;Brooks Brothers&#8221; Rioter CIA Expands Operational File Secrecy This gets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,6],"tags":[35,70,26],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-livejournal-postings","category-offtopic","tag-livejournal","tag-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}