Sometimes, just saying so is enough of a security issue to reflect that certain plans, locations, responses, etc. might be in effect. Sometimes not, and not saying say is enough to keep 'em guessing.

I really don't think the government could care less about the zanies. They're far more concerned, IMHO, that the release of information one way or the other might confirm/deny certain things our enemies simply have no business knowing.

If that keeps 'em guessing, that's good enough for me, and the zanies can go jump in the lake for all I care.

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If I set the budget, we'd have Ares and more. Unfortunately, I don't set the budget, and Ares is just too expensive and too far out for us to accomplish our goals within the budget we were given.

If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.