CounterSanity

Hi guys. Thanks for going to bat for us.

Ajit Pai’s appointment as the head of the FCC is such a glaring and blindingly obvious conflict of interest with his background as an attorney for Verizon (who would greatly benefit from not having to adhere to Title II regulations). Why is this allowed to happen? Not just at the FCC, but all over the government we have appointments of people who are running organizations that they have spent the past decade vowing to destroy. Do we have any legal protection from malicious oversight?

After going to the zoo, and not getting to meet Jack Hanna, we had an idea for zoo T-shirt : “I went to the Columbus Zoo and didn’t see Jack”

Gift shop material?

In all seriousness it’s a great zoo.

I feel like transparency in the government kind of a no brainer. There is obviously a need for operational security, but it seems like the government abuses that classification quite a bit. What kind of arguments do you guys hear from the government in defenses of their lack of transparency?

Public failures and private successes hurt the reputation of the CIA and the OSS as well. I understand the need for operational security, but at some point somebody is going to have to bridge the gap between fully clandestine and reasonably transparent.

What’s the best practical advice you can offer to people who encounter “bad apple” cops?