IP: Chief Takes Over New Agency to Thwart Attacks on U.S.

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Meeks, Brock (MSNBCi)" <Brock.Meeks () MSNBC COM>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 21:45:28 -0800
To: "'Dave Farber '" <dave () farber net>
Subject: RE: Chief Takes Over New Agency to Thwart Attacks on U.S.

 That's the last nail in the coffin lid for access to government
information.

Adm. Poindexter is the author of the infamous "Poindexter amendment" to the
equally infamous NSDD-145 signed by Reagan that closed off much of the
government's information to private access.

Poindexter's role in this was to write an amendment that created a new
classification category out of whole cloth.  On top of "Top Secret,"
"Secret" and "Confidential"  Poindexter then created "Sensitive but
unclassified."  Under this new classification, a federal agency could
withhold nearly anything it wanted.  Very dark day that was... and now this
jerk is sitting in the Pentagon.


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