So when the Army took away my security clearances when I retired, they were doing it to “shut me up”? I never thought about it that way.
well you should have. Many ex-military and National Security veterans have.
I happened to read a half dozen books recently about WW2 against the Japanese and the decade or two preceding it.
That involved the history of Flying Boats, the role of PanAmerican Airways in preparing for the attack by the Japanese which was just a matter of time, and the unrevealed events against Japanese spies and sneak attacks (pre-Pearl Harbor) which failed.
Old fashioned Patriotism prevented military service persons from that era from revealing National Security events that they participated in or witnessed many decades after that war and until they day they died. This includes much that happened 90 years ago, which even today is not accessible by Americans from the National Archives.
Today, the insanity of political correctness and naked stupidity makes that no longer possible; hence this thread, as an example, and the whining by Enemies Domestic losing their security clearances.
Agree. When I retired from the reserves, my need to know ended, and my security clearances ended with it. It wasn’t the desire of the Government to silence me, it was the reality that I had no more need to have access to information that I needed to perform my assignment. And as for me, I don’t miss having a clearance.