from SLATE's summary of major US newspaper:
>The LA [TIMES] leads with further secrecy-heightening by the Bush
Administration, this time on data resulting from missile defense
tests. This information, the story points out, is crucial to
critics of the program, who have long pointed out the
technology's shortcomings. In the past, the Pentagon has
provided pre-test notice and post-test analysis. Now, they'll
only give public notice, vague successful-or-not rulings, and
details of the test that don't go beyond calling decoys used as
anything more than "balloons" or "plastic replicas." The paper
though fails to note that (according to this Center for Defense
Information press release) the House Committee on Government
Reform will be holding a special investigations briefing on
Tuesday entitled "Rushing to Failure in 2004: Is Missile Defense
Testing Accurate?" <
jd
Title: missile defense secrecy
