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2023-07-06 -Land of the Free

Pentagon to tighten controls after classified documents leak

[BBC] The Pentagon will change its security policies after a review into a big leak of classified files found officials struggled to keep up with the number of staff who had top secret access.

New measures include the appointment of officers to control the level of access to top secret data and installing systems to detect electronic devices.

It follows the unauthorised publication of dozens of classified files online.

Ex-airman Jack Teixeira, 21, is charged with leaking files, which he denies.

The results of a 45-day review of Pentagon policies and procedures, ordered by US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin in the wake of the leak, suggested the need to increase oversight for those trusted with classified national security information.

A senior defence official suggested to reporters at a briefing that Pentagon security protocols had struggled to keep pace with the growth in the number of cleared personnel and the number of facilities where secret files are accessed.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-07-06 08:08|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 ...And now, today's moment of Zen:

Does the horse laugh at the closed barn door?

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2023-07-06 08:14|| 2023-07-06 08:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Does the name Bradley Manning ring a bell?

No they don't learn.
They also keep way over classifying everything and any thing.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-07-06 08:26|| 2023-07-06 08:26|| Front Page Top

#3 (S//NF) The.

Derived from: Rantburg SCG, dated 29 February 2023.
Declassify on: Upon eating.

(This example is for training purposes only.)

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-07-06 13:28|| 2023-07-06 13:28|| Front Page Top

#4 My older brother, USN retired, told me a Sea Story:
...There was a RAN (Royal Australian Navy) liaison officer that was going to be transferred from one USN vessel to another USN vessel but the orders were classified as "TS/NF" (Top Secret/No Foreign) so they couldn't tell him more than: "Pack your kit and go down the pier and wait over there for further instructions..." Amusing yarn, if true, about over classification...

Posted by magpie 2023-07-06 15:17|| 2023-07-06 15:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Presumably Trump will be charged…

Posted by Glenmore 2023-07-06 21:22|| 2023-07-06 21:22|| Front Page Top

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