FOIA: National Reconnaissance Office NROL-39 Octopus Mission Patch

Rayzer Rayzer at riseup.net
Sun Jan 24 21:16:51 PST 2016


Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-01-22 at 07:45 -0800, Rayzer wrote:
>> Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
>>> I get that you think this FOIA request was a waste of time. However, I
>>> disagree completely, and I think we do have a right to know who came up
>>> with this rather creepy logo. It is definitely an eye-opener to me that
>>> "A little sinister!!" wasn't enough to discourage the final "OK" on it.
>>> Honestly, this logo should never have made it out into the world; I
>>> think the world would be a better place if an alternative logo had been
>>> developed and all copies of the existing one shredded, overwritten with
>>> zeros, degaussed, etc as appropriate.
>>>
>> You forgot to extract your tongue from cheek.
> Perhaps my phrasing sucked... let me rephrase:
>
> The least the people behind this program could have done, was not waste
> further taxpayer money on a logo which was described as "A little
> sinister!!!" from one the people in charge of approving it. Honestly, as
> issued, I consider the logo disgraceful and un-American. The only silver
> lining to this cloud is that we have some transparency regarding its
> approval, which admittedly is not much of a silver lining.
>
It was this part:

>  I think the world would be a better place if an alternative logo had been developed....


The world would be a better place if there wasn't an NRO to be designing
ANY patches for...

-- 
RR
"Freedom is the capacity to pause between stimulus and response." ~Rollo May


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