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Obama administration won't release secret ACTA docs either

Submitted by MacRonin on March 18, 2009 - 8:29pm
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Obama administration won't release secret ACTA docs either Via Law & Disorder Section - Ars Technica :

As every horror filmmaker knows, fear gains power from darkness, silence, and isolation—especially when the darkness, silence, and isolation occur inside an abandoned mental institution where horrible secrets are buried beneath the floorboards.

Speaking of mental institutions, the office of the US Trade Representative has just decided (again) that no documents related to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) will be released in the "interest of national security." ACTA might not turn out to be the bogeyman that some public interest groups fear, but governments around the world are certainly doing a bang-up job of making the whole thing seem both crazy and terrifying.

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