Posted on 07/16/2010 9:13:59 AM PDT by Mount Athos
The State Department is bracing for a potentially explosive new feature on the Washington Post website that would publish the names and locations of agencies and firms conducting Top Secret work on behalf of the U.S. government, according to the copy of an email obtained by The Cable.
The Diplomatic Security Bureau at State sent out a notice Thursday to all department employees warning them to protect classified information and reject inquiries from the press when the new web feature goes live.
"The Washington Post plans to publish a website listing all agencies and contractors believed to conduct Top Secret work on behalf of the U.S. Government," the notice reads. "The website provides a graphic representation pinpointing the location of firms conducting Top Secret work, describing the type of work they perform, and identifying many facilities where such work is done."
According to the notice, the Post used only open-source information to compile its site. However, if some of that open-source information turns out to have been classified, its publication by the Post doesn't change that classification, the State Department emphasized.
"All Department personnel should remain aware of their responsibility to protect classified and other sensitive information, such as the Department's relationships with contract firms, other U.S. Government agencies, and foreign governments," the notice says.
State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley confirmed the authenticity of the e-mail and said it went out to all State Department employees in the Washington, DC area, 14,574 people.
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The government aids and abets an epic violent illegal invasion of it's country, which is undermining and compromising our entire system, yet their worried about top secret stuff?
lol...
You missed my point..
Look, Bush's Homeland Security Chief Mr. Chertoff had people wandering around the inside of his PRIVATE residence that were in the country illegally...During war time no less.
We have a conga-line of millions, we have no clue who these people are, entering the country illegally, carrying in 2000 plus tons of dope, and God knows what else, during war time.
We've had people wandering around our military bases and working in nuclear submarine facilities that were in the country illegally, during war time no less.
Question:
Does this sound like a government that is concerned with the safety and well being of it's people?
Just give out GPS locations for easier bombing
God! What are they thinking!
You missed my point..
Look, Bush’s Homeland Security Chief Mr. Chertoff had people wandering around the inside of his PRIVATE residence that were in the country illegally...During war time no less.
We have a conga-line of millions, we have no clue who these people are, entering the country illegally, carrying in 2000 plus tons of dope, and God knows what else, during war time.
We’ve had people wandering around our military bases and working in nuclear submarine facilities that were in the country illegally, during war time no less.
Question:
Does this sound like a government that is concerned with the safety and well being of it’s people?
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“I didn’t miss your point”.
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You didn’t answer the question either.
Oh, and you could not be any more incorrect....
Nothing is more important than our sovereignty, and the security of our borders and homeland....
>>>Nothing<<<
It’s been said “the Constitution is not a suicide pact.” Freedom of the press does not mean disclosing government information that is secret and vital to the survival and national interest of the USA. This newspaper site should be shut down under some national security law by the Administration. I know past administrations have been idiots too on secrets, but it’s not too late to save our nation from foreign and domestic threats.
Wikileaks Leaker Bradley Manning Finally Charged
John Philip Sousa must be spinning in his grave...
Someone should poke a hole in your whistle — so that you could play more than a single note...
You cannot be serious.
If our borders were not safe, surely the feds would have done something to protect them after 911.
If all those illegal immigrants had an effect on security inside our borders, homeland security would be all over them.
Afterall, the D of C created homeland security out of nothing in order to do the job the Constitution gave them the authority to do 225 plus years ago.
Surely they are on the ball and making sure nobody with evil intentions has crossed into the homeland over the nonexistint borders.
Im right, right? : )
Where is Abe L. when we need him?
I like his note, its an important one.
It appears they are not divulging any classified information. People who have clearances, indeed people who just work around the military in general, are told not to give out any information even if not classified because pieced together it could create the same damage to our national security as actual classified information. This is the old "loose lips sink ships" saying.
But that doesn't make the pieces of info, or their collation, automatically classified. Publishing may not be a good idea, but it's not illegal. I do have a problem with the government being able to exercise prior restraint on a publication without a crystal clear, solid legal reason for doing so.
BTW, the suicide pact comment is normally made by people who want someone's rights to be violated. It was first made by a dissenting justice who didn't agree with the majority upholding someone's right to free speech. He thought an unruly crowd outside the auditorium where the speech was given was enough to remove someone's rights.
We have upwards of 30 million from God knows where in this country now...We haven't a clue who these people are...During war time yet...
You consider this defending our sovereignty?
Our sovereignty is not being defended now. This is no secret.
This is causing our entire system to be undermined and compromised. This is no secret.
On one hand your saying the Gov must protect it's top secret stuff, yet on the other hand, it's the gov that is aiding and abetting and causing the destruction of our sovereignty and border security.
BTW, feel free to answer the question at post #7.
Of course I'm right..
Nothing is more important than our sovereignty and securing our borders and homeland.
I's like living in a hostile neighborhood with murdering psychos living on the block, while leaving all your doors and windows WIDE open all day and night, while your wife stands on the curb inviting them all in.
And then dummy homeowner complains the secrets about his home security are being reveled.
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