The Doublethink of the CIA

Okay, CIA, I think it was kinda cool that you invented LSD and used hookers to inject their clients. Well, mostly cool. But lately the crap you've been doing is just ridiculous. I just want to call attention to one particular quote from this article mostly:

A spokeswoman for the C.I.A., Jennifer Youngblood, said, “The suggestion that the Central Intelligence Agency has requested redactions on this publication because it doesn’t like the content is ridiculous. The C.I.A.’s pre-publication review process looks solely at the issue of whether information is classified.”

She noted that under the law, “Just because something is in the public domain doesn’t mean it’s been officially released or declassified by the U.S. government.”

So what if the CIA decided to classify the axioms of mathematics? Would all math textbooks have to be redacted?

It's so ridiculous that I can hardly even find the words to explain it. The CIA is claiming the ability to redact anything they want at any point in time simply because they say that it's classified information. Even if it's something that already knows. And apparently they see no contradiction or hypocrisy in the idea that something everyone knows is no longer classified.

Fuck.