Fred,
Limbaugh keeps mentioning 141 days in the Senate:
I haven’t checked that out yet, guess it might be the number of working days he was present.
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It was a real letdown to learn about politicians wrt secrets when our son got his top secret clearance w/access to comparmented info:
Pelosi, Obama, Reid, Durbin, Clinton, etc…
Just not right.
Were quite a few stories about Clinton showing little regard for such protocols, God knows what we don’t know about these clowns. (and worse)
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Groups of compartmented information
SAPs are subdivided into three further groups [1].
There is no public reference to whether SCI is divided in the same manner, but news reports reflecting that only the “Big 8″ members of Congress are briefed on certain intelligence activities, it may be assumed that similar rules apply for SCI. The groups are
Acknowledged:
appears as a line item as “classified project” or the equivalent in the US budget, although details of its content are not revealed. The budget element will associate the SAP with an organization or major command, such as the Navy or Strategic Command
Unacknowledged:
no reference in the published budget; its funding is hidden in another entry, often called the “black budget”.
The appropriate Congressional committees, however, are briefed on the nature of the SAP and approve it.
Waived:
no mention in the budget, and briefed only to the “Big 8″ members of
Congress:
Speaker of the House, House Minority Leader, Senate Majority and Minority Leaders, and the Chairman and Ranking Minority Members of the appropriate committees.
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C.I.A. Chief Says Legislator Disclosed Secrets – New York Times
Robert M. Gates, the Director of Central Intelligence, has accused the chairman of the House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs of disclosing sensitive intelligence information and has ordered an inquiry to determine whether sources and intelligence-gathering methods have been jeopardized.
In a letter dated July 24 and made public on Thursday, Mr. Gates criticized Representative Henry B. Gonzalez, a Texas Democrat and one of the most severe critics of the Administration’s policy toward Iraq before the invasion of Kuwait, for including information from “a top-secret, compartmented and particularly sensitive document” dated Sept. 4, 1989. Report on Arms Purchases








