The only reason why this document was classified was to protect the identity of the INR staff Member. The rest is just an summary and really no need for that portion to be classified above FOUO.
You better send this to Peter Fitzgerald the prosecutor.
Did Dan Rather see this one?
Interesting find.
They redacted sensitive information about the Niger Uranium matter in the paragraph that mentions Val Plame. That stuff is probably still classified and leads me to believe Joe's OPED pieces touched the classified world.
One other thing to point out and the spook types may be able to explain better. The status of a truly covert operative has to be at the highest levels of classification this country has. Her name being mentioned in a paragraph classified as SECRET NOFORN leads me to beleive she wasn't in a Covert program.
They redacted sensitive information about the Niger Uranium matter in the paragraph that mentions Val Plame. That stuff is probably still classified and leads me to believe Joe's OPED pieces touched the classified world.
One other thing to point out and the spook types may be able to explain better. The status of a truly covert operative has to be at the highest levels of classification this country has. Her name being mentioned in a paragraph classified as SECRET NOFORN leads me to beleive she wasn't in a Covert program.
Good job.
This is why no one has been charged with the 'crime' of revealing her name.
Who authorized the declassification
Just curious
The only reason why this document was classified was to protect the identity of the INR staff Member. The rest is just an summary and really no need for that portion to be classified above FOUO.
I'm on your side, but I offer this as a military intelligence officer with 20 years service, who had to deal constantly with declassifying documents.
DECL does not mean a document is declassified; it is an instruction to handlers that means that it can only be declassified from SECRET according to the category "1.6 X 1: Revealing an intelligence source." You would then have to look up that category in a DoD Security Regulation to determine when it can be declassified.
I would like to know who did the redacting because obviously on this date they redacted some names but not hers.
I think you are wrong. Most classified documents have a marking to indicate when or how it would be declassified. I'm not sure what the current format is - but that is what it looks like to me.
It's very simple, they redacted the parts they wanted to remain classified and declassified the parts they wanted to. This administration has every right to defend themselves from misleading attacks.
Do you recognize that this document appears to have been written in 2003 on an IBM Selectric Typewriter. It was probably stolen from the Texas Air National Guard. This could present a great opportunity to check out superscript typing.