Sunday, March 19, 2006
Directorate of National Intelligence
This looks like another "Able Danger" scenario.
I'm sure the government has our best interests at heart. Aren't you?
Right after their self-interests and self-protection, of course...
I'm sure the government has our best interests at heart. Aren't you?
Right after their self-interests and self-protection, of course...
The Wall Street Opinion Journal is wondering about this information. Here are some selected quotes from their editorial:
"These items--collected and examined in Qatar as part of what's known as the Harmony program--appear to contain information highly relevant to the ongoing debate over the war on terror. But nearly three years after Baghdad fell, we see no evidence that much of what deserves to be public will be anytime soon."
"And our alarm bells really rang when the intelligence official added another category of information that's never slated to see the light of day: "We cannot release wholesale material that we can reasonably foresee will damage the national interest." Well, what exactly does that mean and who makes the call? The answer, apparently, is unaccountable analysts following State Department guidelines."
"America went to war in Iraq and Afghanistan because we believed that the truth about the regimes in those countries justified it. Why should so much of that truth now be deemed so sensitive?"
PS- Since this was written, 48,000 boxes of info are being released and posted at the:
Foreign Military Studies Office Joint Reserve Intelligence Center website.
It looks to be quite interesting.
