NY Times and intelligence leaks

scaeagles · 06-29-2006, 12:11 PM

It depends, though, GD. There is a difference between "The US can utilize financial information from international banking transactions to track known terrorists" and "The US is analyzing international finanacial transactions to assist in identifying terrorists".

The first was widely known. I do not believe the second was widely known at all, and that is the thrust of the program.

So to me, deciding what classified information isn't that important and which classified information is can only be made by those with the current authority to classify and declassify. Otherwise there is no such thing as classified.

06-29-2006, 12:11 PM	#16
scaeagles I LIKE! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,819	It depends, though, GD. There is a difference between "The US can utilize financial information from international banking transactions to track known terrorists" and "The US is analyzing international finanacial transactions to assist in identifying terrorists". The first was widely known. I do not believe the second was widely known at all, and that is the thrust of the program. So to me, deciding what classified information isn't that important and which classified information is can only be made by those with the current authority to classify and declassify. Otherwise there is no such thing as classified.
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