Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: August 26, 2011
But as absurd as it is, this deceitful scheme — suppressing embarrassing information or evidence of illegality by claiming that even public information is “classified” — is standard government practice for punishing whistleblowers and other critics and shielding high-level lawbreakers. via Secrecy, leaks, and the real criminals – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com.
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: November 28, 2010
In a highly unusual step reflecting the administration’s grave concerns about the ramifications of the move, the State Department late Saturday released a letter from its top lawyer to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his attorney telling them that publication of the documents would be illegal and demanding that they stop it. It also said [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: March 26, 2010
If the internet was like one big party where just about everything under the sun was happening, then China was treated like they were chaperoned by Google to censor things they did not want to see or hear. This could be very important news that Google refuses to censor for China anymore. Regardless of whether [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: July 8, 2009
The Chinese government has apparently found a new way to confront the dissemination of information when there are protests. Instead of suppressing it completely they are working on a preemptive method where they seize control before other media outlets have a chance to dig for the truth. This new strategy has a fancy new name [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: May 14, 2009
So in the last week or so a major radio talk show host was banned from England, an important economist had nothing to say in his blog after a dinner with the president, and people were laughing at a white house dinner over wishing someone’s kidneys would fail. Then I see a famous host also [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: May 3, 2009
The word suppression has a wide variety of meanings. One meaning is to consciously resist feelings or memories. Another meaning is to stop the spread or publication of information. It also means to put an end to something by force. In military science terms (for those of you who care) suppressive fire is firing weapons [...]
