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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MSI who wrote (18207)	12/24/2002 2:08:41 AM
From: Mighty_Mezz	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 93284

THE United States edited out more than 8000 crucial pages of Iraq's 11,800-page dossier on weapons, before passing on a sanitised version to the 10 non-permanent members of the United Nations security council. The full extent of Washington's complete control over who sees what in the crucial Iraqi dossier calls into question the allegations made by US Secretary of State Colin Powell that 'omissions' in the document constituted a 'material breach' of the latest UN resolution on Iraq. sundayherald.com

To: MSI who wrote (18207)	12/24/2002 2:54:05 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Secrecy corrupts. Absolute secrecy corrupts absolutely. thus rewriting the age-old rule against prior restraint that had previously governed the law in this country. franksnepp.com That's a death knell unless reversed. I believe one of the major reasons the the US was so successfully economically compared to others that, in terms of resources and population should have done as well or better, has been its relative lack of corruption in business and gov't. But businessmen and bureaucrats will not remain honest unless they occasionally imagine their names in 24-point type on the front page of the New York Times or Washington Post. And prior restraint will destroy that prospect. Corruption will eat out the heart of our success faster than any ME terrorists can even dream of. Because of its success on the computer encryption front, the US gov't has decided ALL technical information, classified or not, is "munitions" and subject to the International Traffic in Arms (ITAR) regulations. I am working on a totally unclassified project funded by a gov't agency that, to my knowledge, has never had a classified project or access to classified material. BUT when we transmit information by whatever means, we have to insure the recipient is authorized to receive it. Even if it's the value of pi: 3.141592653589..... I think I just broke the law. I'm sure the Arabs and rotten Commies did know that value.