More Government censorship

On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 10:36:38 -0500, Bob Noel
wrote:

In article , wrote:

From Aero-News.com
http://www.aero-news.net

NORAD Orders Deletion Of ADIZ Meeting Transcript
Were National Security Issues At Stake?

National security... or
outright censorship?

Is it censorship to protect security interests?

Is it censorship to not publish weaknesses of security measures?

IF and I emphasize the IF they did not say anything the average pilot
could not figure out for themselves or even the average ground dweller
with a few smarts.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

Ron Wanttaja wrote:

"Sunshine" laws and the like might have been violated in this case, but they
always include provisions for security concerns. By definition, information
revealing vulnerabilities in defense systems are secret.


Transcripts of gov't proccedings are always suspect. The daddy of them
all, the Congressional Record, is highly editted after the fact as a
matter of routine. We worked with a project a while back that proposed
capturing all the video of the procedings and the concurrent closed
captioning for a real record of the congressional procedings, but it
fell through (we did demo a prototype of the system).

wrote:

"There were some operational security concerns revealed by this
person who had knowledge but appeared as a public citizen, which we
think was out of line. The disclosure of that information could go
directly to national security concerns."

This unfortunate F-18 pilot will probably be relegated to flying a desk in
the Navy after pointing out what all of us on the civilian side of aviation
already know - namely that one could get an IFR clearance to a nearby
airport, turn at the last minute, then blah, blah, blah...

Any one of us on the civy side could have made the exact same comments.

--
Peter