This isn't the first instance I've run into where intelligence agencies and the Pentagon and other government agencies have used classification to cover up faux pas. It just galled me.
If anything, things have gotten worse.
This material is relevant to debates we as Americans are having about the war in Iraq and intelligence reform, ... To keep it classified simply because it might embarrass the agency is wrong.
NSA is guilty of buying a bill of goods from contractors without checking to see if it is feasible. The contractors are guilty of promising the moon and not delivering. And Congress is guilty for failing to oversee it from beginning to end.
It's a form of censorship in its crudest and rudest form.
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