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04 April 2026 14:15

Always funny when one client learns about stuff I did for other clients. Was in a meeting with a bunch of CIA clients a couple weeks ago and one of them mentioned "the Vault 7 guy." Me: You mean Schulte. Her: Yeah. Me: You remember when his court transcripts were unsealed? Her: Yeah? Me: Ta da.

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04 April 2026 14:15

Thought of this while reading @emptywheel.bsky.social

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04 April 2026 14:15

Except it's not. You don't accidentally do this because you're incompetent. They had to work on this very carefully. This is like writing a program in assembly language to use calculus to solve "what is 2+1"

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04 April 2026 14:15

Tbc this is entirely on brand for DOJ going back more than a decade. They once convinced a judge that an agency did a reasonable search in response to a request for "the indices and finding aids they use to process FOIA requests" (language taken from their own declarations) by searching for ...

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04 April 2026 14:15

"indices and finding aids" and then saying with a straight face "we could not locate 'indices and finding aids' in our indices and finding aids" and therefore there are no responsive records.