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Mar 26Liked by epimetheus

Someone wasn't ready for Multipolar to go public, which means someone did their job right re: the FOIA:ed information - you're not supposed to inform politicos about legal information requests, who made or for what purpose. Here, it would be illegal for a civil servant clerk to even ask who you are and for what you want the public information - well, apart from where the information is to be sent of course; informing higher ups that such-and-such asked for X or Y is illegal, and it is illegal for said higher ups to try and find out.

Hence the initial truthful reporting followed by re-writes when the reaction from the higher ups comes down the pipe.

Which is stupid, of course. Now, it's not just the Covid-lies, it's politicos and clerks interfering with news reporting.

Heh, initially read it as "infernal minutes" in the opening paragraphs. My subconscious is trying to say something, maybe.

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As to the 'being ready' part, well, Multipolar only obtained these files (from 2020-21, mind you, i.e., I expect those from 2022-24 to be even more explosive in terms of internal deliberations vs. public policy) after the Administrative Court didn't throw out the case.

As to your consideration of innsynsbejæring (technically a kind of FOIA request), well, civil servants can claim exceptions and deny access for whatever reason, and that is a decision that's effectively impossible to appeal.

I do think that your assessment about interventions from higher in the food chain is correct, as well as your consideration of this being stupid. It's like a never-ending, self-reinforcing feedback loop of agit-prop being reported on, legacy media, politicos decrying 'misinformation', which begs more censorship plus more agit-prop, and so on.

As to your subconsicous, well, these are actors from hell, I have no doubts about it.

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