The "massive amount" is tiny compared to what government hides for purposes of control, CYA, and simple incompetence.
Would this be your opinion, or is there supporting hard fact, or what?
As far as plans not being guarded, the leaks complained about by Rumsfeld are likely leaked by his own Office of Strategic Information, for purposes of testing allies or misinforming Iraqis.
Same question here...
Having dealt with private information for a living for the last 30 years, I can tell you that sometimes you get in the mode of protecting information and you get in the mode of releasing it to people only if they have a "need to know".
Over a period of years, I suspect this military information builds up into a substantial, USELESS database, and rather than taking the time to decide which of this USELESS data should be released, we just classify it all. Frankly, that seems like a more sensible approach than the alternative, which would be to arbitrarily declassify information that may or may not be sensitive. |
