According to a Marine Corps document produced earlier this month, the men and women on the front lines of the Global War on Terror just might be their own worst enemies.
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June 30th, 2007 is the self-imposed deadline at the Department of Homeland Security for a broad range of changes designed to improve their performance in handling FOIA requests. As tomorrow is a Saturday, that makes today the de-facto deadline for all DHS components to get their ducks in a line.
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It’s almost certainly nothing groundbreaking, but the instructor of a course on computer forensics and forensic data analysis at the Navy Postgraduate School has thoughtfully put many of his class resources online, accessible by the world. A collection of presentation notes in PDF form is here; a large list of resources on the subject is right here.
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As described here previously, the “family jewels” documents released by the Central Intelligence Agency are full – full – of redactions. On very nearly every page, at least a little information has been withheld by the Agency for reasons, well, unknowable to we mere mortals. Even if their logic escapes you and I, we can still infer at least a little bit of what they’re withholding.
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Nearly every page of the CIA’s “Family Jewels” released yesterday contains at least one redaction. As I wrote yesterday, some of these redactions are highly suspicious; others merely highly questionable. A few seem irrational, illogical, and apparently completely arbitrary.
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