Just when you thought our government’s secrecy policies couldn’t get any more ridiculous, this little nugget comes down the pike. In a legal battle with the ACLU, the Justice Department blacked out a section of a legal document — not because it disclosed sensitive information, but because it contained a quote from the Supreme Court […]
August 2004
For years, environmentalists and the U.S. Navy have been duking it out over a new class of ultra-loud sonars — and whether the machines are bad for the local whale population. The Navy says it needs the active sonars, to track quiet, electric submarines that roam coastal waters. But the devices can crank up to […]
All those Nigerian business offers and penis enlargement promises you’ve been getting? They could be coming from Pentagon computers, says USA Today. THERE’S MORE: Crappy computer security “is eating us up,” Army CIO Lt. Gen. Steve Boutelle told an IT conference today.
“Despite U.S. President George W. Bushs declaration that a nascent missile defense system is nearly ready, the military officials responsible for operating the system are far from clear about who will do what, when and how,” reports Defense News. “Parts of the system are still in development, rigorous tests have yet to be conducted, commanders […]
Lasers have been getting pretty good at knocking down rockets, as we’ve seen in tests over the last few years. Now, the ray guns are starting to prove that they can zap one of the most common battlefield threats mortars as well. In tests last week at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, […]
