The CIA's first tweet

[Julius Skrrvin]

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/06/spy-tweets-cia-joins-twitter-facebook/

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

 

[NZA]

 

[DEAD7]

 

[ExodusNirvana]

I respect the troll game

05 fukk em though

 

[Liu Kang]

Nice one.

 

[Brown_Pride]

....wth are they going to tweet? Half their shyts going to have to be redacted

 

[88m3]

 

[UserNameless]

These niccas got jokes...

Twitter verified, tho. .... 16 points...

 

[Jhoon]

Theres nothing interesting about this.

 

[Ego Noir]

Theres nothing interesting about this.

Until you get a notification that they done followed you

:shaqlaugh:

 

[newarkhiphop]

lol yall ever read the story behind the phrase "we can neither confirm nor deny" actually pretty interesting

 

[UserNameless]

The fact that an organization notoriously known for secrecy has gone "pseudo" public via social media is in fact interesting.

Until you get a notification that they done followed you

:shaqlaugh:

 

[Dooby]

lol yall ever read the story behind the phrase "we can neither confirm nor deny" actually pretty interesting

Supply the story breh.

 

[newarkhiphop]

Supply the story breh.

its called the glomar response

The Glomar Explorer was a large salvage vessel built by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for its covert "Project Azorian"—an attempted salvaging of a sunken Sovietsubmarine. In February 1975, aware of the pending publication of a story in the Los Angeles Times, the CIA sought to stop the story's publication. Journalist Harriet Ann Phillippirequested that the CIA provide disclosure of both the Glomar project and its attempts to censor the story, to which the CIA chose to "neither confirm nor deny" both the project's existence and its attempts to keep the story unpublished. This claim stood, and Phillippi's FOIA request was rejected, though when the Ford administration was replaced by theCarter administration in 1977 after the 1976 presidential election, the government position on the particular case was softened and both of Phillippi's claims were confirmed.[2][3]

The "Glomar response" precedent still stood, and has since had bearing in FOIA cases such as in the 2004 lawsuit American Civil Liberties Union v. Department of Defense, wherein Federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein rejected the Department of Defense and CIA's use of the Glomar response in refusing to release documents and photos depicting abuse at Abu Ghraib prison.

"Glomar" is the syllabic abbreviation of Global Marine, the company commissioned by the CIA to build the Glomar Explorer.

The original text of the Glomar response was written by Walt Logan (pseudonym), who was at that time an Associate General Counsel at the CIA. So as not to divulge to the Soviet Union either what the CIA knew or did not know, the response read: "We can neither confirm nor deny the existence of the information requested but, hypothetically, if such data were to exist, the subject matter would be classified, and could not be disclosed."[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_response