Repost - Open Technology Fund's Classified Audit
On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 05:48:38AM +0100, Rachael Tackett wrote:
Not sure why my previous messages failed to go through.
Open Technology Fund (OTF) is the US government program, which pretends not to be a government program. OTF has financed projects such as Tor Project, Signal, SubgraphOS, etc. Several years ago, the State Dept.'s Inspector General's Office investigated and found out that Open Technology Fund was breaking a bunch of federal laws on grant funding.
Congress ordered the GAO (Government Accountability Office) to conduct an audit of OTF. So, the GAO says they have an audit, but they cannot release it to me because it might be classified by the Department of State. So, I file a public records request, and the GAO gives me some bogus excuse about "congressional records". So, I call the House and Senate Foreign Relations Committees, and no one ever calls me back.
Open code, with secret contracts and now a secret audit!
Both came through to me. I find some of my emails don't get to me, and some of others' emails don't get to me either (e.g. Razer - but some of his do get through). There are some problems with emails getting through - they end up in the archive, but don't get through to the end user. I guess either gmail, godaddy, or whoever your email front receiver is, might be rejecting, and lists.cypherpunks.org is not retrying or something. But I just don't know - I emailed the bounces@l.cp.org address yesterday, asking what might cause this type of issue. Z
On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 11:48 PM, Rachael Tackett <ractack@mail.com> wrote:
Open Technology Fund (OTF) is the US government program, which pretends not to be a government program. OTF has financed projects such as Tor Project, Signal, SubgraphOS, etc. Several years ago, the State Dept.'s Inspector General's Office investigated and found out that Open Technology Fund was breaking a bunch of federal laws on grant funding.
Congress ordered the GAO (Government Accountability Office) to conduct an audit of OTF. So, the GAO says they have an audit, but they cannot release it to me because it might be classified by the Department of State. So, I file a public records request, and the GAO gives me some bogus excuse about "congressional records". So, I call the House and Senate Foreign Relations Committees, and no one ever calls me back.
Open code, with secret contracts and now a secret audit!
You need the title of the document, and what entity wrote it. Then google that. Take it to foia / muckrock / mandatory declassification review. If it's congressional research service or some other congress crap, bark at your congress reps. Here's another audit paid for by them... https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ricochet-encrypted-messenger-tack...
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grarpamp -
Rachael Tackett -
Zenaan Harkness