[extropy-chat] A New Ultra-Secret Government Agency

[Samantha Atkins]

An agency dealing in deadly materials that is exempt from all  
oversight?  Why?  Unaccountable government is a far worse threat than  
any real potential for bioterrorism.   The FOIA and other current  
oversight legislation already allows huge protections for supposedly  
sensitive information.  If this agency wants vastly more than that  
then that is a great red flag that dirty deeds are very likely if not  
already planned.   For instance, there have been incidents of  
government programs doing experiments on non-volunteer civilian  
populations in the past.  With oversight disabled completely those  
incidents and perhaps worse to come would never be known.

- samantha