Federal Agents Make Arrests of People Exposing Highly Classified Information
I knew we could get federal agents to start arresting people to protect “highly classified” information! Here are the details:
ATLANTA, July 5 — Federal agents have arrested and charged an employee of the Coca-Cola Company and two others with stealing trade secrets and wire fraud, saying they tried to sell “highly classified” information to that company’s competitor PepsiCo for $1.5 million.
Oh . . . you thought I meant they made arrests in the disclosure of the Swift program! Silly me! I guess that headline was a bit misleading, now that you point it out.
Hint for our counterterrorism officials: next time you have a legal and effective counterterror program — trademark it! Instead of calling it the “Terrorist Finance Tracking Program,” call it “Terror Busters.”™
It’s the ™ that makes all the difference. New York Times lawyers will kill any story disclosing the program — and federal agents will be at your beck and call.
You heard it here first.
UPDATE: Or second. Ace apparently had substantially the same gag before I did. I guess the irony is such that it leapt out at more than one person.
Nice one.
I suspect that the Coca Cola company has more legal muscle than the federal government.
SteveB (263854) — 7/5/2006 @ 10:41 pmI think that is good. One who can’t be loyal to his company can’t be loyal to others as well. They should be punished severely!!
James Thompson (c6e39a) — 7/5/2006 @ 11:11 pmThey should be punished severely!!
What do you suggest?
I say: they must engage in debate with Actus for ONE FULL WEEK. They must respond to *each* comment of his, and answer each question he asks.
Cruel, you say? Oh yes indeed. But that’s the price for betraying the COCA-COLA COMPANY!
Patterico (50c3cd) — 7/5/2006 @ 11:20 pmthe government protects big corporate interests a whole lot more assiduously than it protects its own interests.
assistant devil's advocate (ae9a5b) — 7/5/2006 @ 11:46 pma few months back in the portland oregonian (if you think the “dog trainer” is bad…) story about a lady who ran a toy store up in the columbia gorge somewhere…agents from the department of homeland security called on her store.
they were concerned about counterfeit toys (knockoffs not made by the manufacturer whose name was on the label). the lady was actually selling genuine toys, as opposed to counterfeit toys, but the agents still gave her the third degree.
when you go to bed tonight, put your head on the pillow and close your eyes, you may sleep assured that the bush administration is protecting the security of our homeland from the dire threat of counterfeit toys.
See how seriously they took the “Swift” program? See how you guys ran with it, bit the bait, and promoted Joseph Goebbels, government controlled media. Just keep helping along the fascistic plan. The neo-cons will thank you. Don’t you hate it when I make sense, despite how wild it may seem? Well, the WILD bunch took hold in 2000 and democracy is not something they like, because it limits them, but not Bush much, he just overwrites laws that say, “well, sure, unless I want it some other way, I like making use of torture, so hell with this bill” for example.
Quotations have been a source of learning for me, so I am going to share an interesting one for you. Forgive me for often repeating them, but they are always pertinent to some point in the discussion of the particular moment.
Alex Carey: “The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.”
blubonnet (86405d) — 7/6/2006 @ 1:34 am“Don’t you hate it when I make sense, despite how wild it may seem?”
Actually, it would be a nice change from the drivel you leave here.
sharon (fecb65) — 7/6/2006 @ 4:24 amWow! The Justice Department finally gets tough!
james23 (9e51ea) — 7/6/2006 @ 7:18 am[…] As also revealed on this site, Patterico clues in on the topsy-turvey world we live in where corporate trade secrets not only trump free speech, but receive a higher priority than national security as well. […]
The Southern California Law Blog » Trade Secret Priorities (Coke Blows) (36e489) — 7/6/2006 @ 12:36 pm