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Originally Posted by Larry Jacks
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.
Good assessment. Just because someone wants to know something, it doesn't mean they have a need to know. There's no way to reveal something sensitive to the population at large without everyone else finding out about it, too.
My work requires me to work with classified information, some of it secured at very high levels. Just because I have the clearances, it doesn't mean I have the need to know everything that is classified at those levels. I have access to the info I need to do my job and nothing more.
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Ahhhhh but in this country if a majority of people want to information declassified badly enough they have the right to elect representatives who pledge to declassify the information. There are no secrets in this country that are "above the law". In the end we as a society determine what secrets we will allow to be kept and those we choose to have released.