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Old Jul 18, 2010 | 06:21 PM
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This Hacks me off (and I don't get fired up easily)

Washington Post to out contractors working on Top Secret projects.

Early next week, the Washington Post is expected to publish articles and an interactive website that will likely contain a compendium of government agencies and contractors allegedly conducting Top Secret work. The website is expected to enable users to see the relationships between the federal government and its contractors, describe the type of work the contractors perform, and may identify many government and contractor facility locations.
Heard about it through work
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Old Jul 18, 2010 | 06:33 PM
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The Washington Post is trying to sensationalize something that has been out there forever already. It's no secret dozens of big U.S. corporations in every field from aerospace to food service, general contracting, information technology and everything in between do business with the government - much of it classified.

Yawn.
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Old Jul 18, 2010 | 06:34 PM
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What 'projects'?
I work in buildings that don't exist, full of people that don't exist, working on projects that don't exist.........

Report THAT.
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Old Jul 18, 2010 | 06:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Ace
The Washington Post is trying to sensationalize something that has been out there forever already. It's no secret dozens of big U.S. corporations in every field from aerospace to food service, general contracting, information technology and everything in between do business with the government - much of it classified.

Yawn.
And that makes Treason okay?
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Old Jul 18, 2010 | 10:43 PM
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I hate the press ... I've learned more crap that I didn't need or want to know than stuff that was worth hearing about from them ....

They put our soldiers in danger, now our contractors and "special projects" ... do they even employ common sense anymore ??

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Old Jul 18, 2010 | 11:51 PM
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They will be careful not to reveal anything classified. The story will simply be sensationalised for PR/circulation purposes and have no real content. Should they get too close to anything actually classified, or some rogue editor slips it through the cracks, they will be prosecuted as anyone who intentionally discloses classified information would be.
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Old Jul 19, 2010 | 06:05 PM
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If a newspaper can find out abought it, it wasent realy that top secret in the first place. If it does turn out to be clasafied info then they will be shut down before the get it posted.
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Old Jul 19, 2010 | 06:41 PM
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It was on the national news this morning.
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Old Jul 19, 2010 | 08:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Ace
They will be careful not to reveal anything classified. The story will simply be sensationalised for PR/circulation purposes and have no real content. Should they get too close to anything actually classified, or some rogue editor slips it through the cracks, they will be prosecuted as anyone who intentionally discloses classified information would be.

It's next to impossible to put a ticked off cat back IN the bag .... once you let it OUT !! .

The press is NOT going to be careful about anything ... careful doesn't sell stories and they could care less about being prosecuted because they know they have "Freedom of speech" behind them along with some high powered legal eagles on retainer.

Look at how much caution Geraldo exercised about divulging troop location ... what a jack-waggon that schmuck is !!


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Old Jul 20, 2010 | 12:20 AM
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careful doesn't sell stories and they could care less about being prosecuted because they know they have "Freedom of speech" behind them ...
You should bone up on Title 10 of the U.S. Code.

"Criminal Penalties. Generally, federal law prescribes a prison sentence of no more than a year and/or a $1,000 fine for officers and employees of the federalgovernment who knowingly remove classified material without the authority to do so and with the intention of keeping that material at an unauthorized location. 41 Stiffer penalties — fines of up to $10,000 and imprisonment for up to 10 years — attach when a federal employee transmits classified information to anyone that the employee has reason to believe is an agent of a foreign government. 42 A fine and a 10-year prison term also await anyone, government employee or not, who publishes, makes available to an unauthorized person, or otherwise uses to the United States’ detriment classified information regarding the codes, cryptography, and communications intelligence utilized by the United States or a foreign government.43"
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