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Posted on 05/02/2005 9:02:32 PM PDT by freepatriot32
Edited on 05/02/2005 9:22:06 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
For years, a citizen who wanted to know the name and phone number of a Pentagon official could buy a copy of the Defense Department directory at a government printing office. But since 2001, the directory has been stamped ''For Official Use Only," meaning the public may not have access to such basic information about the vast military bureaucracy.Excerpt from Boston Globe article
of course under the patriot act we as american citizens on american soil dont have nearly the level of privacy that the fbi is giving to osama bin laden right now
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It's weird how much we know about the Bush administration with all this shroud of secrecy it deploys.
Someday, when all of this is over, books will be written which detail how secrecy saved lives in the bleak early years of the twenty-first century.
Despite the carping of goofballs.
lp.org? The World Trade Center was still falling when its then-standard-bearer, Mr. Harry Browne, penned his infamous essay claiming that the United States got what it deserved.
Duh Duh DUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A perfect example of the paranoid libertarian mindset (as opposed to the sane, legit Libertarian mindset). First, how does he know this, and second, if it's so easy to find out then I guess the administration isn't so damned impenetrable, and third and most importantly, he's taking this piece of information in a vacuum--who knows what this is connected to that makes keeping this secret important--things are connected to other things, people could be hurt if certain connections are made, etc. Do I know that's the case here? Nope--but neither does this quack.
Don't look now, but there is a black helicopter hovering above as we speak
Sometimes it's best to keep information that might jeopardize our National Security out of the hands of the Tin Foil Hatters whose lips have been known to sink Ships
OK....
We Americans all carp and whine about our privacy, yet some of us believe that every single thing the Government does should not only be public, but broadcast from the mountain top.
Gimme a break!
Very unimpressive
I might be a little slow but I really do fail to see how blacking out osama bin ladens name on fbi documents is protecting us from terrorism
And .. the History Channel just did an expose' on FDR - and how he saved America by not telling us what was going on, and how he did all these things in secret.
Hmmmm? I guess the good old double standard still applies. LOL!!
"But since 2001, the directory has been stamped ''For Official Use Only," meaning the public may not have access to such basic information about the vast military bureaucracy"
Oh please, like anyone really needs to know this information. Because I lie awake at night thinking "I REALLY need to know the identity of some Pentagon officials." Yeah, let's publish the names of Pentagon officials so Al Qaeda can track them down and kill them. Let's make it so they don't have any privacy and have to fear for their security and being tracked down by some Islamic nutcase. I'm SURE the Libertarians would love for their employers to publish all their information. Once again, the looney Libertarians go out on another idiotic limb.
Sorry, but this policy about DOD phone books goes back decades. It has nothing to do with the Patriot Act.
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