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Information Incognito.

Authors :
Block, Robert
Shatz, Amy
Source :
Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition. 3/22/2005, Vol. 245 Issue 56, pB1-B2. 2p. 1 Cartoon or Caricature.
Publication Year :
2005

Abstract

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.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00999660
Volume :
245
Issue :
56
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition
Publication Type :
News
Accession number :
16478162