Your WTF! Moment of the Day:
Department of Justice asks Government Printing Office to order depository libraries to destroy (not remove, but DESTROY) five public domain publications, including texts of federal statutes, claiming that the documents were training materials and other materials that the DOJ “did not feel were appropriate for external use”. When the American Library Association complains and files a Freedom of Information Act request for the publications, in order to try and figure just why in the hell the DOJ would make such a bizarre request for public domain documents, the DOJ changes its mind and withdraws the request. (While recalls of information inadvertently distributed to depository libraries from government agencies are not apparently that uncommon, it’s extremely hard to argue that statutory text should somehow be considered “for internal use only”.)
Found via boingboing; no mention of this, of course, to be found on the DOJ website.