Est. 2011 Vol. XIV — No. 212
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Exclusive · The Criteria File · Part One of a Continuing Request

Seven-Year-Old Classified as an Enemy Combatant Says the Situation Is Not, in His Assessment, Super Chill

A one-page determination form assigns a designation to a child and states, in a field the size of a postcard, the criteria on which it was assigned. That field has been withheld in full. Reality Daily has asked for it nineteen times.

A single-page government status determination form, revision nine, with fields for reference number, date, location, age of subject listed as 7, a checkbox marked COMBATANT, a property line reading SUNGLASSES NON-PRESCRIPTION ONE PAIR, a large criteria block entirely blacked out, an unmarked continuation-sheet question, an illegible signature, a blank print-name line, and a stamp reading ADMINISTRATIVELY FINAL.
Exhibit A — The determination. One page, fourteen numbered fields, twelve of them filled in by somebody who has done this before. The only box larger than the age is the box that would say why the age did not matter, and that box has been covered with a bar measuring 4.1 by 2.7 inches. The form provides a continuation sheet in case the criteria run long.

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