A few journalists are getting braver.
Washington's intelligence establishment appears to be in panic mode over an upcoming Washington Post series about runaway growth in defense and intelligence spending.A State Department email has accused the Post of planning to make public "top secret" information about defense and intelligence contractors working for the US, despite an admission in the same email that the Post's information came from "open sources."
'Top secret' information in open sources? Sounds like they're getting ready to pull a 'national security' claim to have the Post (in cahoots with PBS) series blocked.
"On Monday July 19, the Washington Post plans to publish a website listing all agencies and contractors believed to conduct Top Secret work on behalf of the US Government," the email stated.
Hmmm…now why would the Post do a thing like that?
Marc Ambinder at the Atlantic has obtained a memorandum from the ODNI [ Office of the Director of National Intelligence]'s communications chief, Art House, in which House lays out what he expects to see in the Post series, and his predictions paint a negative picture of defense and intelligence spending over the past decade.
What you might expect from the Post expose:
The intelligence enterprise has undergone exponential growth and has become unmanageable with overlapping authorities and a heavily outsourced contractor workforce.
Stop right there. Outsourced? Our national intelligence is outsourced??
The Obama administration is already trying to do damage control, even though nothing has been published yet.
"There will be examples of money being wasted in the series that seem egregious and we are just as offended as the readers by those examples."
Ha! Interpret that any way you see fit – all interpretations will be valid.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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