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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 11:43 AM
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It's a self-licking ice-cream cone,"

http://www.defensetech.org/archives/000628.html

SPIES ATTACK WHITE HOUSE SECRECY

There's a "total meltdown" in America's intelligence services -- and the Bush administration's penchant for secrecy is one of the major reasons why, current and former top U.S. spooks charged Tuesday.

George W. Bush's White House has pushed like few before it to put government information out of the public's grasp. Moves to classify documents are up 400 percent from a decade ago, to more than 23 million such actions in 2002, according to the Information Security Oversight Office, a division of the National Archives.

But despite their cloak-and-dagger reputation, several of the country's leading spies, past and present, aren't happy about the rush to make things secret. To counter far-reaching, stealthy terrorist cabals, the country needs more openness, not less, they said Wednesday at Geo-Intel 2003, a first-of-its-kind conference here on the use of satellites in war, intelligence and homeland security.

"Our secrecy system is all about protecting secrecy officers, and has nothing to do with protecting secrets. It's a self-licking ice-cream cone," said Rich Haver, until recently Donald Rumsfeld's special assistant for intelligence, now with Northrop Grumman. "We're compartmentalizing the shit out of things. It's causing a total meltdown of our intelligence processes."

My Wired News report from New Orleans has more.
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catch this: he is Rummy's ex special assistant for intelligence

wow, what must he know.
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 11:45 AM
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1. More good news.
Excellent. We need all we can get.
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Webster Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 12:17 PM
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2. Yep....drip...drip....drip....
I stayed up till 4:30AM to listen to Joseph Wilson on Ray Taliafero's show on KGO last nite. The chimp's puppet masters were foolish to fuck with these guys.
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