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Focuses on the climate in the United States of keeping sensitive security information (SSI) concealed for fear that terrorists may use the information. Comments from Melissa Rudinger of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association regarding the policy requiring pilots not to fly near nuclear reactors while the government keeps the location of reactors a secret; History of the concept of SSI, which originated in 1974 and has expanded under 2002's Homeland Security Act; Reference to another information classification called "Sensitive but Unclassified" (SBU); Other classifications of certain types of information, including FOUO (For Official Use Only) and UCNI (Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information), indicating the government's desire to keep information that is not considered top-secret from being released to the public; Comments from Jack Johnson Jr., the former chief security officer for the Department of Homeland Security, regarding the kind of information that is vital to national security.

Reports that the administration of United States President is impeding the official investigation into the September 11 terrorist attacks. Inability of the investigators on the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States to effectively investigate the incidents; Means used by the Bush administration, including blocking access to vital documents and a campaign of concealment and secrecy; Reasons why the administration opposed such a commission, including the possibility that administration members failed to act properly on intelligence prior to the attacks; Ethics of the administration's actions, which may result in a further inability to stop such attacks.

Deals with the security lapses in the United States (US) government under President Bill Clinton. Implications of the loss of the laptop computer belonging to the Bureau of Intelligence and Research; Reasons an intelligence officer assigned to the Russian Embassy in Washington was expelled in December 1999; Assessment of the loss to the People's Republic of China of highly classified data on the nuclear weapons of the US.