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[QUOTE]Originally posted by George Harris: [QB] Mr. Norman, as to violations of security clearance, you are absolutely correct so far as we were concerned as we were toward the bottom of the pecking order. When it comes to POTUS, then who determines what is top secret and what is not? Since this I suspect to be an Executive Branch decision, then as head of the Executive Branch, would the final decision be his? Think about this for a moment when considering the character of the person holding the office. As to security clearances themselves, I basically played the game. Too many times I saw clearances used to cover up the embarrassing and things the powers that be wanted to keep hidden that had absolutely nothing to do with any real security issues. One thing that comes to mind is the rule about photographing anything near the generals' compound in Long Binh. It was well inside the middle of the base, but the reality is that they did not want the public to see how well they were living in "combat". OF course, everyone knew where it was so there was no real secrecy issue. I have quite a few stories from a now long deceased Military Intelligence LTC of some of the absolute sillies that got classified solely to cover either stupidity or embarrassment. In the same flavor is "Non-disclosure Agreements" commonly used in engineering contracts particularly in public works. It seems that most of these serve primarily to cover bad decisions by the owner. In the same vein, "Value Engineering" is frequently used by contractors to reduce costs, as these clauses allow the postulated savings to be shared between owner and contractor, but commonly they result in saving of say, $100,000 that results in a reduction in value of the project by $1,000,000. Been involved in the fix of a couple of failures due to this, but thanks to the "non-disclosure" I can say no more, other than that they involved component failures on constructed facilities located somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere, and not involving the project that was my primary at the time. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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