Posted on 05/22/2003 4:50:39 PM PDT by topher
During the "Operation Iraqi Freedom" and for a while afterwards, I could access certain web pages that contained military information.
Some was not too sensitive, but with the "War on Terror", it was still information.
For example, there was a web page that listed the senior officers in the US Navy, and their current assignments and biographies. That is now inaccessable, along with other web sites.
I really don't have a "need to know", and it really is dangerous to allow too much lead time for when a carrier might dock or where that US Navy aircraft might dock.
Shortly after 9/11, FreeRepublic had a saying "Loose lips sink ships" -- from a previous generation and other wars.
I am actually quite pleased I cannot access these web sites. Finally, the Bush Administration is correcting serious problems introduced by the Clinton Administration -- though problems with the FBI and CIA may take longer to correct.
God bless our fighting men and women of the Armed Forces and let us hope that we can protect them from the stupidity of "looseness" of information that betrayed the United States in the Clinton Administration.
We can only protect our troops by keeping some things secret and hard to access by those who would aid terrorists and the terrorists themselves.
God bless America!
(The reason for this article was that I was able to track some of the progress of the USS Constellation and USS Harry S Truman on their way to their home ports. Now that ability seems to have disappeared, and I am grateful that it has.)
8 long years of dismantling the institutions and institutionalizing mediocrity and corruption-thats the the Clinton legacy...
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