If the initial mission of the Liberty were classified and STILL considered classified, the crew would end up in the basement suite at Levinworth for saying anything about it besides the official 'scripted' statment? And yes, that is a logical conclusion. Any soldier KNOWS that if they reveal classified info they get a free ticket to Levinworth's basement rooms. (A euphemism for PRISON, thank you.)I'm familiar with Leavenworth.
However, a simple and truthful answer would be to say, "The details of our mission are classified. I can say nothing more."
Instead, they've been caught lying.
Having served in uniform myself, I don't blame them for keeping to teh official statement. I don't know any sane person who would risk a stay in prison, even if doing so exposed a monumental lie one way or the other.
The lie has already been exposed. The problem is that the crew continues to parrot the lie.
I posted it to you so that you knew what I fired at TP.
And I was aware that you knew to what I was referring.
Not everyone does.
Yes.
The lie is exposed.
But the bureaucrats would still go apesnot all over anyone who didn't still parrot the status quo.
That's the unfortunate side of things.
And while they could say, "I'm sorry, that's classified." that would lead to conclusions of their mission being very much the opposite of what they said.
And bureaucrats hate smart people.
I'm willing to bet there's bureaucrat types going bizzak over this right now.