FBI agent tries to copyright super-secret torture manual, inadvertently makes it public

[Kimmo]

@singletona082

At this point I’m hoping the person that did this thought ‘I need to get this out into public attention but I don’t want to pull a Snowden in case something bigger comes across my desk’ so uses the fact their bosses are so out of touch that they slide the idea across the desk and frame it as being helpful.

That would be so very fucking awesome, but I’m not sure such epic cleverness is likely enough; it’s exponentially easier to be that clever in retrospect.

Oh, wait -

@toyg

Not “you” – this guy was a unit chief. It’s plausible that a smart underling played him into making an ass of himself - after all, somebody trying to claim copyright of a federal document (which is by definition in the public domain, in the US) must have quite the sense of entitlement, and likely an ego to with it. Being a slow-burning prank, the underling was likely to get away with it scot-free; who knows, s/he might actually be one who eventually tipped off reporters.

Ah, I can definitely see that. Hatred of a boss can be a fierce motivator