[FrankR]

"How can a newspaper or a journalist get away with revealing to the world top secret"

Like others are saying, where do journalists get "Top Secret" information anyway?

In the USAF I had only a "secret" clearance, and we didn't dare utter anything we knew to anyone that didn't have clearance and a "need to know". And especially not to a low-life journalist.

In Germany, we were briefed regularly about not being duped into answering questions from civilians when off-base, etc.

And now we have journalists who know "top secret" information...a big step above just "secret".

Why aren't these people under the hot lights of the CIA and FBI answering some questions? I'm not sure "freedom of information" acts cover National security secrets as long as they remain classified.

[MadIsh32]

Top Secret clearances are handed out like candy these days.

Half of the contractors in the DC area have TS/SCI access.

This is a sad externality of the post 9/11 world..so many more resources devoted to fighting terrorism and so many more people employed by the federal government to do it, meaning that more people have TS/SCI access.

Its not hard for leaks to occur when the government has allowed this apparatus to grow out of control

[Brittany Pounders]

For her first “award winning article” the information was leaked through CIA operative Mary McCartney... who has since been fired...but you can read my piece and follow the trail between her and the lefty liberal world and easily figure out the motivations behind it all.