Re: [iwar] Comments on the Dartmouth Security Study

From: B.K. DeLong (bkdelong@pobox.com)
Date: 2001-09-27 08:29:00


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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:29:00 -0400
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Subject: Re: [iwar] Comments on the Dartmouth Security Study
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At 08:19 AM 09/27/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>I think that the problem was and remains that things that the rest of us
>know are still classified by the government.  I looked at a classified
>threat assessment for a major DoD command some time back and found that
>it was ludicrously poor to the point of being practically useless.
>Every one of the small number of identified incidents was in the press
>within a week of its occurence and yet the report has them classfied for
>10 years.  Vatis was privy to the classified information when in
>government and thus it would be a violation of law for him to include it,
>even though it is in the press.

Well that's annoying....you can't even reference articles where said 
classified events were reported?

How can our nation get up in arms about shitty security if we aren't 
allowed to hear about it. Rhodes and other GAO people's reports can only do 
so much to get the ball rolling.


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