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| Fifth Column |
| POTUS & Agency sez security classification system broke, orders PIDB to fix. |
| 2011-06-02 |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 Beauty. I gather that wasn't satire. |
| Posted by: KBK 2011-06-02 14:41 |
| #3 The man's from MIT, Willy. Were he from Yale, the CIA might listen to him. General Petraeus will bring an end-user perspective that should prove useful in cutting such Gordian knots. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-06-02 11:16 |
| #2 "Our system was developed with typewriters and carbon paper" So what? Now we have printers and photocopies! The Public Interest Declassification Board is all about who has the right to leak info. To make it easier for the Board. :) Here is a quote from Kai von Fintel (MIT) on CIA Leaks Epistemic modals are standardly taken to be context-dependent quantifiers over possibilities. Thus sentences containing them get truth-values with respect to both a context and an index. But some insist that this relativization is not relative enough: `might'-claims, they say, only get truth-values with respect to contexts, indices, and—the new wrinkle—points of assessment (hence, CIA). Here we argue against such "relativist" semantics. We begin with a sketch of the motivation for such theories and a generic formulation of them. Then we catalogue central problems that any such theory faces. We end by outlining an alternative story. (Epistemic modals are used to indicate the possibility or necessity of some piece of knowledge) |
| Posted by: Willy 2011-06-02 10:03 |
| #1 The classification system has long been wildly out of control. The trouble is that there is such a vast volume of material that needs to be fractionally accessed at times, that "information overload" has become a nightmare. The last effort proved disastrous, because PFC Manning was able to get his hands on vast amounts of data. And the disaster before that was the transfer of data from the nuclear lab at Los Alamos in 2006, that saved the Chinese many billions of dollars. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-06-02 09:07 |