Washington Post, Public Secrets, by Robert G. Kaiser, Sunday, June 11, 2006.
“Steven Aftergood, who works on classification issues for the Federation of American Scientists, calls the administration’s approach to secrets “a cultivation of fear as a policy driver.” He adds: “We are being told that nothing is more important than the external threat that confronts us, and nothing is more valuable than security in the face of that threat.” Aftergood calls this “craven, and an insult to the millions of Americans who have given their lives to defend this country.””
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Washington Times: TSA tries to classify report: “Air marshal officials tried to classify a House Judiciary Committee report that criticized agency policies as endangering national security and denied that those procedures still existed, a point disputed by several of the air marshals who testified to the panel’s investigators.”
Sensitive but not classified government documents
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