It was wrong when they revealed this kind of information while Bush was in office and its wrong now:
The Diplomatic Security Bureau at State sent out a notice Thursday to all department employees warning them to protect classified information and reject inquiries from the press when the new web feature goes live.
“The Washington Post plans to publish a website listing all agencies and contractors believed to conduct Top Secret work on behalf of the U.S. Government,” the notice reads. “The website provides a graphic representation pinpointing the location of firms conducting Top Secret work, describing the type of work they perform, and identifying many facilities where such work is done.”
According to the notice, the Post used only open-source information to compile its site. However, if some of that open-source information turns out to have been classified, its publication by the Post doesn’t change that classification, the State Department emphasized.
Just unbelievable
WAPO, doing the terrorist work patriotic Americans won’t do. They might just as well strap on a homicide belt, walk into these facilities, and detonate it. If any of these places/contractors are subsequently targeted and harmed by our enemies, the WAPO should be held criminally liable. If you’re still subscribing to this rag, cancel and tell them why.
Some people call them the “State Run Media”, but this is not that. What is it? Do they just hate America?
I’d like to know how any significant amount of information about top secret projects can be compiled from open sources to begin with.
1) Is the security that lax, or are there details I’m missing?
2) Why don’t these traitorous a**holes just move to their version of paradise? You know, Cuba, Venezuela, ….Iran?
free press, yes we need it, responsible press, we do not have it.
@Greg
Its simple, you follow the money. Its almost impossible to classify the fact that a contract exsists (due to transparency in our Fed procument system). Once you know there is a contract, it is not hard to figure out what that contract is for.
Once you know the company there is a lot of information legaly available as to who works there, board of directors, and even financial records from Stock Reports.
Remember, these are contractors… and so don’t even fall under a lot of the espionage laws which protect CIA agents and such….
WHY DONT THEY START WITH THE HEAD of the country, by identify his true origines, his religion
and all who work in government, before they start in the most vulnerable agency that must remain secret: BY the WAY, who are they themself? which religion do they sympathise with?
THOSES infos, would be good to tell the AMERICANS who already know quite a bit but
ARE not ready yet to tell.
The Washington Post has begun rolling out their series of articles:
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/
854,000 people holding top-secret security clearances? Security complexes occupying space equaling 3 Pentagon buildings?
You’ve got to be kidding.
GREG; THAT is reassuring to know, that they all work to protect THE UNITED STATES,from terrorists and their followers; the AMERICANS are not naive enouph to beleive that there’s a lot of infiltration of thoses in AMERICA, bye
specialy with open borders
To put that 854,000 number in perspective, the IRS has around 101,000 employees; the Social Security Administration has only 62,000 employees. The Immigration and Naturalization Service has only about 18,000.
Anyone who likes big government bureaucracies has got to be impressed with a number like 854,000.
Especially when you consider that a majority of people involved in the nation’s intelligence and security apparatus probably don’t even have top-secret clearance.
GREG: hi, HOW come they did’nt cut some of thoses unnessessarys jobs, before cutting important one, that’s a big chunk of money that is spend unwisely, they want people in more government jobs
to get their votes, or favoritism, or infiltration by the government. WHO KNOWS.
bye