The Hill: Obama’s ‘classified’ comments strike nerve
President Obama’s latest defense of Hillary Clinton has struck a nerve with both the GOP and government leakers such as Edward Snowden.
The president’s comments — “there’s classified and then there’s classified” — suggested some classified information is more sensitive than other classified information, uniting in scorn critics across the political spectrum.
To advocates for government transparency, the remarks stunk of duplicity by suggesting that federal classification rules are arbitrary and don't apply to the Democratic presidential front-runner.
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WNU Editor: If its classified .... its classified .... period.
2 comments:
Yeah, nope.
There are documents out in the Public realm, that are "still" classified in the Government realm, stuff you can read in an internet cafe in China, but will net you jail time if you read it via a Government computer.
There's stuff that's "retroactively" classified, some of it has been in the public domain since the '60's and can be found at your local library,
There's stuff that's been "classified" simply because it's embarrasing for the Government or is hiding corruption,
Then there is stuff that is classified, because it's actually protecting Confidential information and National Security Secrets.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2015/07/24/
"double-speak"
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