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US Government Strategy To Prevent Leaks Is Leaked
Jake writes "The US government's 11-page document on how to get various US government agencies to prevent future leaks has been leaked. It doesn't get any more ironic than that. After the various leaks made by WikiLeaks, the US government understandably wants to limit the number of potential leaks, but their strategy apparently isn't implemented yet. It's clear that the Obama administration is telling federal agencies to take aggressive steps to prevent further leaks. According to the document, these steps include figuring out which employees might be most inclined to leak classified documents, by using psychiatrists and sociologists to assess their trustworthiness. The memo also suggests that agencies require all their employees to report any contacts with members of the news media they may have."
So then your approach would be to simply sit back and watch the enemey get stronger and stronger until they decide to overtake you?
I mean seriously, the entire communism equals bad things didn't start with world war two. It started when the communist party USA attempted to overthrow the US government and install a Mussolini type dictator between WWI and WWII. Then after WWII, the communists parties around the world folded in with the socialists parties because of the negative association with Hitler and that's why they are technically different but treated as the same by many in politics. To add to this, Russia who was upset about not being able to keep ground it fought to free from the Germans and Italians started just rolling into countries already decimated and taking them over. and they were operating under the same guise of communism.
So in the end, in less then one century, communism had been behind an attempted overthrow of the US government, it was the vehicle that allowed Hitler to gain power and do what he did, it allowed Russia to become the USSR, and when they are fighting the people of a country to force them into the system too, all they are doing is getting stronger and stronger until one day they become a serious threat to you again.
If you think ignoring your enemies while they get stronger is logical, prudent, noble or anything other then stupid, then I guess I should point to Europe and you can pick about any era in which there was war and see how that worked out.
If you dont understand that sometimes diplomatic relations requires saying things off the record (ie, "we dont really trust X government, even though publicly we are working with them"), then you dont understand the real world.
See, for example, the recent slashdot article on how Zimbabwe's potential for reform was just badly hurt by this leak.