The “IC on the Record” Tumblr was created after the biggest leak in intelligence history.
A few months ago, as a debate was heating up over whether to renew an FBI surveillance authority known as Section 702, I was looking forfrom the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court . I asked a colleague if FISA had a website where I could find these opinions. “Oh, that’s easy,” my colleague said. “Just check their Tumblr.
But the civil libertarians weren’t the only ones up in arms. Everyday Americans began to pressure the Obama administration for greater transparency on the surveillance programs—something the intelligence community wasn’t accustomed to doing. Before the Snowden leaks, agencies like the CIA and NSA prioritized the protection of classified information and national security secrets, not public access to that information.
As Thomas got to work on creating the first-ever public-facing blog for the intelligence community, the president gave him an unexpected push. On Aug. 9, 2013, Obama addressed the growing controversy ata few steps “to move the debate forward” on transparency and public confidence in the surveillance programs.
columnist covering technology and online culture, pointed out that Tumblr may not have been that odd of a choice in 2013. “There’s no other platform that it would have started on at that time, except Tumblr,” Lorenz told me. “That was peak Tumblr, in terms of its utility to reach the public.” When IC on the Record launched, Tumblr already hosted over 30 U.S. government blogs, including sites for the White House, Department of Defense, and the IRS.
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