[NYT Technology] If surveillance from government intelligence agencies has you concerned, now you can at least follow them back -- if only on Tumblr.
Sorry, I'm a few kilometers beyond "concerned".
On Wednesday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence started a Tumblr blog about the work of the nation's intelligence community, called IC On The Record.
Off the record, appears to be a one-stop place where our betters can get on the same sheet of music.
Created in response to President Champ's move to both defend the country's intelligence-gathering practices and to create a "hub for further transparency," the site includes official statements, declassified documents, testimony, interviews and fact sheets. The office represents 17 different intelligence agencies, including the N.S.A., the C.I.A., the F.B.I. and military intelligence units.
So far, the site's most prominent release has been an 85-page ruling by the former chief judge of the FISA court, Judge John D. Bates, who "sharply rebuked the National Security Agency in 2001
| 2001? Wasn't that an awfully long time ago? |
| That's safe, you see. By 2023 we'll get the FISA reports for .. 2002... |
for repeatedly misleading the court that oversees its surveillance on domestic soil," as reported in The New York Times.
But its appearance on a blogging platform that is more commonly used by 20-somethings to share GIFs and other snippets of pop culture (or for pornography) surprised many.
Nothing surprises me anymore, not even a blog sans a comments section. 
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