Don't read this or you might lose your security clearance. Fair warning.
You are about to be exposed to some classified information.
The article below was recently written in response to the mini-scandal about Hillary's emails by Thomas Blanton, the current Executive Director of the National Security Archives.
http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/latest-columns/20150803-tom-blanton-classified-fact--keeping-us-in-the-dark-doesnt-make-us-safer.ece
The inspectors general of the State Department and the intelligence community have made a security referral to the Justice Department regarding Hillary Clinton’s emails on the grounds that some of them were “potentially classified.”
So is this column.
Watch out: Your clearance is at stake.
Let me get the suspense over with. Here’s a classified fact: We, the United States, based medium-range ballistic missiles carrying nuclear warheads in Turkey in 1962, which angered Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev so much that he put his own into Cuba.
Wait: I’ve read all about that. It’s been declassified, hasn’t it?
Well, yes. The word is the Cold War is over, yet Cold War secrecy rules still control the government’s information systems.
The Defense Department still can’t bring itself to declassify nukes in Turkey, and Italy, and the 50 or so other countries where we idiotically stationed them during the Cold War.
Here at the National Security Archive, in our “Dubious Secrets” series, we have published hundreds of U.S. government documents that one office or official considers declassified, while another insists must stay secret. To whom do you listen?
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