Who Authorized the Department of Homeland Security to Police Online Speech? Not Congress | Jon...

Homeland Security looks more and more like it's run by Homer Simpson. :(

Often bureaucrats have found it is easier to ask forgiveness than to get permission.

FTA"

“Our government produces lies and disinformation at industrial scale and always has,” journalist Jack Shafer wrote in Politico after the White House unveiled its disinformation board in April. “It overclassifies vital information to block its own citizens from becoming any the wiser."

This. So. Much. This.

I personally witnessed this MULTIPLE times working in Intel. And the flip side was ALSO true. Playing fastband loose on classification of source and method data so that we can "conveniently" release information about "bad guys."
Don't get me wrong. The OVERWHELMING majority of intelligence I dealt with or created, was properly classified and handled.

But when people start playing political games with classification it REALLY passes me off.