Posted on 07/16/2010 6:30:26 PM PDT by MamaDearest
The State Department warns employees about new website highlighting Top Secret facilities 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thecable.foreignpolicy.com ...
State Department warns employees about new website highlighting Top Secret facilites
Call me old fashioned, but isn’t this treason?
IT’S TIME TO IMPEACH OBAMA FOLKS! This is being done with his approval. Someone in HIS ADMINISTRATION leaked this crap and Redstate is reporting that the administration is “basically cool with it”.
This is all open source material. Done through research, ie looking at contracts, and budgets.
Welcome to a Republic, where freedom of the press is part of the template.
Isn't that precisely the point? If the Washington Post can use open source info and connect dots, what is preventing hostile (and/or controlling) foreign governments and terrorists from doing exactly the same?
National Security Agencies fail to protect U.S.
Snip: It also stresses the obvious: “Effective collaboration among multiple agencies and across federal, state, and local governments,” is critical and that the agencies involved in national security will need to make concerted efforts to forge strong and collaborative partnerships. Nearly a decade after the terrorist attacks this has yet to occur, however.
In a similar assessment last spring, the inspector general for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence determined that the agencies responsible for gathering intelligence remain infested with the same mismanagement, turf battles and communication breakdowns responsible for the failures leading to the 9/11 attacks. Despite a “sweeping overhaul” and a dramatic budget increase the country’s 16 spy agencies are still prone to disastrous intelligence failures that put the U.S. at risk.
Your source that it’s all open source info, please?
I don’t get that impression at all from reading the CNN article on the same thing. And if you think we have a ‘free press’, you are seriously deluded. They are puppets of Obama’s criminal and marxist administration.
Reporting on turf battles and mismanagement is one thing. Exposing individuals and companies working to protect this nation and secret locations, etc. IS TREASON!
BTW, ask them who Dana Priest is working for these days.
During World War I or World War II, yes, these would be illegal. Maybe not treason, but something nearly as serious.
The clever use of the courts and media in cases like Daniel Ellsworth’s undermined those concepts.
The newspaper will not reveal ALL TS sites, you can bet nothing will undermine The one’s power.
Hmm, what is going on with the “training camps” that the Edward M. Kennedt Serve America Act gave us? No articles about that for some reason.
True. However, the real point is this:
It's not that they can't 'print' it. It's that they shouldn't 'print' it.
They certainly aren't stopping the wily terrorist who has 'staff' who do nothing but scour the internet for 'intelligence' purposes.
But they make it easy and help inspire the occasional border case/schizo to commit some act of vandalism or even worse.
ALL to sell more Laundry Detergent.
From this article thread :
‘Although the Washington Post acquired the information from open sources,’
Do you have proof that the Washington compost obtained their info this way
A compilation of “open source” material in one place is not the same as the existence of open source materials. A collection of open source material, designed to reveal existence, patterns, funding, and performers on TS projects could be quite damaging. Responsible citizens would not make such material available.
A foreign agent with such a compilation, if caught, would be in hot water with such an intelligence analysis report.
I don’t care what they say..you can’t get the kind of information they are claiming to have through open source material. The clandestine services of our intelligence agencies are not in the budget..PERIOD! They do that for this very reason. Someone on the inside(perhaps a dem on the intelligence committee) has provided this info or someone in the administration.
‘They certainly aren’t stopping the wily terrorist who has ‘staff’ who do nothing but scour the internet for ‘intelligence’ purposes.’
Yeah, they can invest in google, or silobreaker.
Of course they are. But, lapses happen all the time.
No he doesn’t have proof. He is relying on the lying SOB’s at the WP.
Like I said in another post. The information they are claiming to have is not available ‘open source’. Much of the clandestine CIA and Intelligence monies are not in the budget. This crap has been handed to them by someone on one of the intelligence committees or in Obama’s administration.
I am sorry, but you wrong. The clandestine services of our intelligence agencies are not in any public budgets. They are not made public.
You get the idea? That's what any team of open source teams would do. Then fill in the holes and make estimates. It's not hard.
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Good grief is right. What you just showed is a public budget for construction....LOL! If this is what WP is publishing as ‘top secret’ info..then their company is more of a joke than they are right now. That’s saying alot.
I haven't seen their 'website', but I'm guessing they are using 'top secret' and throwing it around to get attention, when in reality they are publishing the amount of toilets at a place and the cost of generators or contracts to such locations.
Yes, this info could be used to paint a picture, but it's not relevant to 'terrorist'. Who, as a whole aren't the mightiest foe we have faced.
This is being done with the approval of Obama and his administration. So if it ends up being about stupid toilet seats and ‘wasteful’ spending, it is for one reason and one reason only....To give cover to Obama to gut our intelligence services so he can use it for his massive crippling spending spree and deficits. I would expect him to do the same thing to our military soon.
If it is top secret info that could possibly get people killed or expose important sources and methods..OBAMA NEEDS TO BE IMPEACHED IMMEDIATELY AND THE SENATORS OR CONGRESS PEOPLE THAT GAVE UP THE INFO SHOULD BE IMPRISONED! And last but not least, the WP and Dana Milbank should be tried for treason as well.
This whole thing is an outrage if it is what they are advertising it to be.
We'd have a better chance of getting free gold nuggets from Ft. Knox than ever seeing THAT birth certificate or ANY documentation regarding Obama's education or personal info that has been scrubbed from the internet and all news sources!
Is there any gold inside Fort Knos, the world's most secure vault?
It is said to be the most impregnable vault on Earth: built out of granite, sealed behind a 22-tonne door, located on a US military base and watched over day and night by army units with tanks, heavy artillery and Apache helicopter gunships at their disposal.
Since its construction in 1937 the treasures locked inside Fort Knox have included the US Declaration of Independence, the Gettysburg Address, three volumes of the Gutenberg Bible and Magna Carta.
The White House is moving closer to finishing a sweeping review of U.S. development strategy that aims to put development on par with diplomacy and defense as a "central pillar" of U.S. national security, according to sources familiar with the issue.
DC's spy establishment in panic mode over Washington Post expose
Washington's intelligence establishment appears to be in panic mode over an upcoming Washington Post series about runaway growth in defense and intelligence spending.
Previewing Priest - Inside the semi-secret world of intelligence contractors
Snip: Priest's story is said to focus on redundancies, particularly the number of individual counter-terrorism analytical cells costing the government billions of dollars. Some of the redundancy is deliberate because of the nature of intelligence work. But a lot of redundancy, especially in terms of information technology, is probably just wasteful.
Thanks for the links. It sounds like what I suspected. A cover story for Obama to go in and gut our military and intelligence agencies as well as consolidate more power and control of monies in the executive branch with no accountability from Congress.
Isn’t it interesting that the corrupt American press never does ANY investigative reporting on the waste and ‘redundancies’ in the Department of Education or The Department of Housing and Urban Development. How bout an investigative report on fraud and abuse in Medicare,Medicaid and Social Security. Or perhaps an investigation into ACORN,USAID, etc.How bout the Department of Transportation? The list could go on and on but no...they don’t investigate the fraud and abuse of those agencies. It’s always the same thing with these leftist commies....gut our military and intelligence.
Executive Orders dismiss Congressional and Senate approvals as if both branches of government did not exist at all. The whack job czars and appointees are selected specifically to create maximum damage to the Rule of Law, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and to rouse maximum outrage that has no sympathetic or non-administration connected remedial outlet.
Freedom of the Press, does not entail the blatant exposition of collated security information, as being is presented “ala carte”, by the current Administration. Please, show a US Constitutional advisory, attendant action or ammendment proposal that even comes close, to what you suggest. Go ahead...
Lincoln did a good job of rounding up the press in the civil war, you suggest the same?
Yeah...now you can write an anonymous expose, with your own name.
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