{"id":1137,"date":"2004-07-28T02:11:12","date_gmt":"2004-07-28T07:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/doj-still-thinks-it-can-get-back-a-secret\/"},"modified":"2004-07-28T02:11:12","modified_gmt":"2004-07-28T07:11:12","slug":"doj-still-thinks-it-can-get-back-a-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/doj-still-thinks-it-can-get-back-a-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"doj still thinks it can get back a secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/articles\/2004\/07\/24\/libraries_ordered_to_destroy_us_pamphlets?pg=full\" class=\"broken_link\">Libraries ordered to destroy US pamphlets<\/a> [boston globe,  july 24,  2004]<\/div>\n<p>The federal Government Printing Office has ordered libraries across the country to destroy five US Department of Justice pamphlets that provide how-to instructions on prosecuting asset forfeiture cases, invoking a rarely-used authority to order the removal of items the government routinely sends to hundreds of libraries<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>two problems with this.<\/p>\n<p>1) is that the documents aren&#8217;t being destroyed because they are classified, but because &#8220;the Department of Justice has determined that these materials are for internal use only.&#8221;<br \/>\n2) the subject matter seems to be &#8220;asset forfeiture law,&#8221; particularly how to build an asset forfeiture case.  that gives me the impression that asset forfeiture is now a hot topic in the department of justice.  that&#8217;s a problem, because in our adversarial legal system, the prosecution is required to disclose its strategy and bears the burden of proof.  or maybe not so much anymore.<\/p>\n<p>kudos to the librarians for fighting back on this one.  the secret is out.  it&#8217;s too late.  power to the readers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafeshops.com\/usingrights\/\" class=\"broken_link\"><img src=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/images\/iPanic_Yellow.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Libraries ordered to destroy US pamphlets [boston globe, july 24, 2004] The federal Government Printing Office has ordered libraries across the country to destroy five US Department of Justice pamphlets that provide how-to instructions on prosecuting asset forfeiture cases, invoking a rarely-used authority to order the removal of items the government routinely sends to hundreds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}