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Obama Administration Weighs Nixing 'Confidential' Classification
NBC News ^ | April 13, 2016 | by Ken Dilanian

Posted on 04/13/2016 1:08:39 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Hulka

“There is Confidential, Secret and Top Secret.
That’s it.
“Above Top Secret” is an invention.
It is TS with caveates, but it is still Top Secret.”

Well, there is SCI which is an ad hoc subset of Top Secret, as you suggest. I had only a Secret clearance, so I never got close to anything that was SCI, but I knew some people with a TS clearance who occasionally had to read such material in a windowless room with an armed guard inside the room. They signed in and out and were prohibited from taking notes.


21 posted on 04/13/2016 1:56:39 PM PDT by riverdawg
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To: pfflier

Thanks.


22 posted on 04/13/2016 2:01:32 PM PDT by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: riverdawg

Armed guard? That’s just an out of control SSO that needs to be reined in. Ridiculous.


23 posted on 04/13/2016 2:14:11 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Hulka

In the olden days (of paper), Secret documents were logged in, and tracked. When audited, you had to produce it. Had to get permission to make a copy, which was logged in.

Not so for Confidential.

This went away with computers and classified networks.


24 posted on 04/13/2016 3:38:34 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (As always, /s is implicitly assumed. Unless explicitly labled /not s. Saves keystrokes.)
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The Obama Administration is trying to diffuse the damage done by Hillary Clinton's email leaks.
The dumbing down has begun.
25 posted on 04/13/2016 4:22:41 PM PDT by freebird5850 (Barry, just how are you going to lie out of this one?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Was clapper on his knees wiping something dripping from his lips when he made this statement...
Clapper is a useless slug an incompetent political hack...
The DNI is a condom stopping the flow of useful Intel and an obozo foil....

Pathetic .....


26 posted on 04/13/2016 4:57:11 PM PDT by zzwhale
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To: Scrambler Bob

All electronic documents are logged. There really isn’t a problem with the systems, there is a problem with the people. Bad people do bad things, and now that half the disqualifications for clearances have become lifestyle choices, we have a lot of very bad people in very high places.

Slick Willy started destroying the vetting process, but Obama has just about completed the job. He has done more damage to our national security than anyone in the general population can know.

Our national security programs aren’t simply riddled with bad actors; they are now run by people who don’t even profess loyalty to America.


27 posted on 04/13/2016 5:16:39 PM PDT by antidisestablishment (If Washington was judged with the same standard as Sodom, it would not exist.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Obama Administration Weighs Nixing 'Confidential' Classification"

Is this a preemptive blanket pardon for his administration?
28 posted on 04/13/2016 5:49:41 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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yes, tracking and safeguarding is taken seriously.
In the Pentagon we had Confidential to TS in the office and stored in a safe. Making copies was not done unless it was on a special copier in the vault.
Confidential was taken seriously as all other protected documents.
Had one time where I left a Confidential message on my desk when I left for the day and self-reported in the morning and that was not taken lightlly.


29 posted on 04/14/2016 12:05:56 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: pfflier

Indeed and thanks.


30 posted on 04/14/2016 12:07:09 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: mikey_hates_everything

“Armed guard? That’s just an out of control SSO that needs to be reined in. Ridiculous.”

I didn’t have access to this room, which was called the “vault,” but the security of materials read there was taken very seriously. I honestly don’t see how people like Pollard and the Walkers were able routinely to photocopy or remove the TS/SCI documents they passed to their foreign contacts. It would have been extremely difficult in both the private defense contractor and government agencies with which I was familiar.


31 posted on 04/14/2016 8:06:44 AM PDT by riverdawg
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