Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
A high-ranking FBI agent made a series of baffling mistakes.
For one, the agent filed a sensitive internal manual about secret interrogation practices with the Library of Congress, which means anyone with library card get access it without any redactions, Mother Jones reports.
While the manual sat in a public The ACLU had tried for years to get a copy of the manual and has only ever received a heavily redacted copy.
Turns out, the supervisory special agent wanted to get it copyrighted – even though government documents can’t be copyrighted.
“A document that has not been released does not even need a copyright,” says Steven Aftergood, a government secrecy expert at the Federation of American Scientists. “Who is going to plagiarize from it? Even if you wanted to, you couldn’t violate the copyright because you don’t have the document. It isn’t available.”
“The whole thing is a comedy of errors,” he adds. “It sounds like gross incompetence and ignorance.”
