http://defensetech.org/2006/08/21/keeping-more-secrets/ The Future of the Military, Law Enforcement and National Security Fri, 25 May 2012 06:29:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://defensetech.org/2006/08/21/keeping-more-secrets/#comment-139197 Robot Economist Mon, 21 Aug 2006 23:58:36 +0000 http://deftech.usmilblog.com/?p=3231#comment-139197 As someone who works science and technology issues on the inside of the DOD, I have two things to say to Rummy and his disclosure policies: 1) Everything listed in paragraph 2 of that website alert easily falls under established categories of classified information, so they shouldn't be publically available anyway. 2) I will stop offering my take on S&T and acquisition policy on blogs the day that Rumsfeld wears a suit made of GAO, CBO, and CRS reports critical of Pentagon policy. DOD information control rules are pendantic at best, robbing Americans of their tax dollars at worst. Classification power is not a blank check. As someone who works science and technology issues on the inside of the DOD, I have two things to say to Rummy and his disclosure policies:
1) Everything listed in paragraph 2 of that website alert easily falls under established categories of classified information, so they shouldn’t be publically available anyway.
2) I will stop offering my take on S&T and acquisition policy on blogs the day that Rumsfeld wears a suit made of GAO, CBO, and CRS reports critical of Pentagon policy.
DOD information control rules are pendantic at best, robbing Americans of their tax dollars at worst. Classification power is not a blank check.

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