Classified Report On the CIA's Secret Prisons Is Caught In Limbo
A 6,700-page report that cost $40 million to produce is being blocked from circulation
by the US Department of Justice by relabeling it as a Congressional
Record, even though it isn't.
Why?
Congressional records aren't
necessarily subject to Freedom of Information Act requests.
Techdirt
reports:
"There had been some hope that ex-Senator Mark Udall might
choose to release some of it from the Senate floor before leaving
office, but that didn't happen.
And, with the changing of the guard, the
new head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr, demanded
that all the federal government agencies that received the report should
return it to him so he can destroy it and make sure that no one ever
sees what's in the report.
As we noted, however, this whole thing seemed
to be an effort to state publicly that the document was a Congressional
record.
That matters because Congressional records are not subject to
FOIA requests. Executive branch records are subject to FOIA requests --
and the ACLU has made a FOIA request to the exec branch for a copy of
the report."
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Painters and house cleaners don't need to worry.
It's not just blue collar workers who need to be concerned about being replaced with a robot, top execs should be worried too.
According to Network World: "Global management consultants McKinsey and
Company said in a recent report that many of the tasks that a CEO
performs could be taken over by machines.
Those redundant tasks include
'analyzing reports and data to inform operational decisions; preparing
staff assignments; and reviewing status reports,' the report says.
This
potential for automation in the executive suite is in contrast to
'lower-wage occupations such as home health aides, landscapers, and
maintenance workers,' the report says.
Those jobs aren't as suitable for
automation, according to the report. The technology has not advanced
enough."
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