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In a message dated 02/04/2000 8:03:12 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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<< (Washington, D.C.): Recent revelations about former Director of Central
Intelligence John Deutch's mishandling of highly classified information
suggest
that potentially grave damage could have resulted. Unfortunately, the failure
by the head of the CIA to adhere to the most basic principles of intelligence
is not an isolated incident. Rather, it is symptomatic of the cavalier -- if
not actually contemptuous -- disregard exhibited by the Clinton-Gore
Administration over the past seven years for the most basic fundamentals of
information, physical and personnel security. >>
Don't blame it all on the present administration; there is plenty of blame to
go around. I recall an ambassador during the Ford years who was so poorly
briefed that he wanted to send classified material concerning security
arrangements for a very important and somewhat threatened occasion via the
KDD rather than the American military communications center. I almost got
fired over the incident, but then he finally spoke to another ambassador
about it and was convinced that I had done the right thing. Of course in so
doing, I'm sure he discussed classified information over the phone.
Now that's another matter. When I learned that Newt Gingrich was in a flap
over a couple's hearing what he considered a private conversation on his cell
phone--something that my girl friend gets on her baby monitor--I knew we were
in trouble in this country. Of course, Newt was never in the military, an
affliction that affects a goodly number of our congressmen. The most lowly
recruit learns first and foremost that you never discuss classified
information on the telephone. NEVER!
And we're not talking cell phones here. We talking any kind of phone. What
in the world has congress thought all those Russian fishing trawlers were
listening to? So I called my own Congressman (a Republican, I'm afraid) and
then my Senator (also a Republican) and in both cases, the individual who
answered the phone had never been briefed that NO TELEPHONE CONVERSATION was
secure.
The whole bunch of them need to get it together. The CIA first of all.
There have been a lot of chiefs of the CIA, and we don't know much about what
any of them did. Which is probably just as well. One can't think too
little of an organization that never seems quite to catch up to the spies
within. Still, sometimes they do something wonderful. Remember them
catching that "long gun" Saddam was gathering together. It's just that so
much of the time, they stumble over their own feet. And their advice to
foreign dictators and their cooperation with same is horrible. I have a hard
time forgiving the things that happen to Americans in countries where they
are advising and assisting. Prudy
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