Comments on: CIA on Prepublication Review http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2008/01/cia_on_prepublication_review.html Secrecy News from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:03:51 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: LabDancer http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2008/01/cia_on_prepublication_review.html/comment-page-1#comment-938 LabDancer Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:21:25 +0000 http://fasweb.beacontec.com/blog/secrecy/2008/01/cia_on_prepublication_review.html#comment-938 My first reaction was like: well doesn't this come as a pleasant surprise, that a government agency so crippled by the past and hubris, not to mention the always fatal problem of the inability to appreciate the need to look at itself with at least some self-deprecating humor, would provide such an open warning as to the sorts of restrictions budding autobiographers should be aware of. But then they went and redacted anything truly important, so - maybe I was wrong on the humor issue. My first reaction was like: well doesn’t this come as a pleasant surprise, that a government agency so crippled by the past and hubris, not to mention the always fatal problem of the inability to appreciate the need to look at itself with at least some self-deprecating humor, would provide such an open warning as to the sorts of restrictions budding autobiographers should be aware of.

But then they went and redacted anything truly important, so – maybe I was wrong on the humor issue.

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