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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDon't read this or you might lose your security clearance. Fair warning.
You are about to be exposed to some classified information.
The article below was recently written in response to the mini-scandal about Hillary's emails by Thomas Blanton, the current Executive Director of the National Security Archives.
http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/latest-columns/20150803-tom-blanton-classified-fact--keeping-us-in-the-dark-doesnt-make-us-safer.ece
The inspectors general of the State Department and the intelligence community have made a security referral to the Justice Department regarding Hillary Clintons emails on the grounds that some of them were potentially classified.
So is this column.
Watch out: Your clearance is at stake.
Let me get the suspense over with. Heres a classified fact: We, the United States, based medium-range ballistic missiles carrying nuclear warheads in Turkey in 1962, which angered Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev so much that he put his own into Cuba.
Wait: Ive read all about that. Its been declassified, hasnt it?
Well, yes. The word is the Cold War is over, yet Cold War secrecy rules still control the governments information systems.
The Defense Department still cant bring itself to declassify nukes in Turkey, and Italy, and the 50 or so other countries where we idiotically stationed them during the Cold War.
Here at the National Security Archive, in our Dubious Secrets series, we have published hundreds of U.S. government documents that one office or official considers declassified, while another insists must stay secret. To whom do you listen?
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(115,681 posts)pnwmom
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(115,681 posts)about those in E WA with the fires when the winds get there. Off to read.
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(115,681 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)to live in a house surrounded by pine trees. I used to keep the needles raked up as best I could, so dangerous. Sometimes I found cigarette butts in them, like WTF is some idiot thinking to smoke and to toss butts in heavily wooded areas.