'It’s one thing for the government to argue that these statistics need to be kept secret. It’s another for the government to claim that it can’t reveal its rationale for why this data should be kept from the public.'
And all it does is build the sense that it's simply because it would be embarrassing and politically inconvenient, which, historically, is the reason behind a substantial number of secret classifications.
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Google Mocks Opacity Of National Security Requests While Feds Try To Hide Court Action From Public
For quite some time, Google and other Internet biggies have argued that they should be able to reveal relatively detailed data to the public about user-information requests from federal law enforce…
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It's so secret that the reason for keeping it secret is secret… and that's pretty gosh-darn secret 😛
+1 for the Sneakers reference. 🙂
+Isaac Sher One of my favorite films (to the geekish extent that I once made a point, while on a vacation in San Francisco with my wife, of seeking out the one filming location I was confident I could find, the outdoor cafe where Marty meets with the bad guys. Which, it turns out, is not actually an outdoor cafe, go figure).
Gosh, remember when the NSA were still thought of as the good guys?
Greg Marmalard: But Delta's already on probation.
Dean Vernon Wormer: They are? Well, as of this moment, they're on DOUBLE SECRET PROBATION!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077975/quotes
Hehehehe. "I'm with the United States Government! WE DON'T DO THAT!" "Well, that's what I want. Peace on Earth and Goodwill towards men."