"Controlled Unclassified Information" - New Memo Signed By Bush (On Eve Of Daughter's Wedding) WAPO

[kpete]

Keeping Secrets: In Presidential Memo, A New Designation for Classifying Information

Left undefined are which laws or policies generated the requirement for protecting such information,
and which interests are pertinent.

By Walter Pincus
Monday, May 19, 2008; Page A15

Sometime in the next few years, if a memorandum signed by President Bush this month ever goes into effect, one government official talking to another about information on terrorists will have to begin by saying: "What I am about to tell you is controlled unclassified information enhanced with specified dissemination."

That would mean, according to the memo, that the information requires safeguarding because "the inadvertent or unauthorized disclosure would create risk of substantial harm."

Bush's memorandum, signed on the eve of his daughter Jenna's wedding, introduced "Controlled Unclassified Information" as a new government category that will replace "Sensitive but Unclassified."

Such information -- though it does not merit the well-known national security classifications "confidential," "secret" or "top secret" -- is nonetheless "pertinent" to U.S. "national interests" or to "important interests of entities outside the federal government," the memo says.

more at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/18/AR2008051801806.html?hpid=sec-nation

[Mabus]

1. What I am about to tell you is controlled unclassified information enhanced with specified

dissemination: When Bush does stuff like this it is just fucking creepy.

End of controlled unclassified information enhanced with specified dissemination.

[evlbstrd]

3. What?

[Mabus]

6. Pick up the phone

[izzie]

2. Can he just make up the laws as he likes?

--

[Mabus]

7. Worse

He believes them to be valid and his cronies enforce them.

[jaksavage]

4. If you release this information

The citizens of the United States would hang me (Jr B). So it is now
controlled unclassified information . That is all. Move along.

[MinM]

5. 41 and gwb43 have beaucoup secrets to keep...

And is it noteworthy that CIA mouthpiece Walter Pincus wrote this? :shrug:

[lutefisk]

8. Does anyone really believe that the next POTUS will roll back any of these executive powers?

I don't see that happening.

And I don't believe there will be any purge of the thousands of right wing loyalists placed throughout the federal government.
And I don't believe DHS will be disbanded or reformed.
And I don't believe the career officers at the Pentagon forced out by Rummy will be called back.
And I don't believe any of the Bush Regime criminals will ever, ever be held accountable by any future administration.
And on and on.

Things have changed, permanently.

[Wiley50]

11. Does anyone really believe that there's gonna be a NEXT PTUS?

Put all of these Exec orders and other legislation together and try to tell me differently

Please!

[Scriptor Ignotus]

14. Obama might; McCain won't

those are your options this November.

[librechik]

9. any law using the word "dissemination" deserves to be mocked

hard to keep a straight face even reading it.

But what can one expect, since the lunatics took over the asylum long, long ago?

[Richard Steele]

10. Everything is secret. The USA is over. nm

[Mabus]

12. Kick

I already used my recommend.

[MichiganVote]

13. All short for Bullshit.

[OneBlueSky]

15. I was just wondering . . . when they start rounding us up for the detention camps . . .

do you think we could request that all of us DUers be assigned to the same camp? . . . maybe something in a mild climate? . . . I think it would be neat if we were all together, don't you? . . .

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. But, but, but they will not be impeached

unfrigging unbelievable!