Re: Just because it is made public doesn't mean it's declassified

2001-08-03 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Alfred Qaeda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: M.I.T. Physicist Says Pentagon Is Trying to Silence Him by James Dao Here is the letter in question. I'm sending it at least as much to put it in the inet-one archives as I am for general interest :-) If anyone wants the HTML version or the attachments,

Re: Just because it is made public doesn't mean it's declassified

2001-08-03 Thread John Gilmore
Just because it is public DOES mean it's declassified. There are Supreme Court cases on this. If the government can recover all the copies, then it can REclassify it. But if it can't, then the document is not classified. I ran into this situation when digging up some of William Friedman's

Re: Just because it is made public doesn't mean it's declassified

2001-08-02 Thread Paul Merrill
Even if all sources were unclassified, there still looms Classification by Aggregation. (An NSA phone number is Unclass; the NSA phone Book is Confidential.) Ultimately, the pulled Clearance/loss of contract is the Tall Peg. PHM --- Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:22 AM

Re: Just because it is made public doesn't mean it's declassified

2001-08-02 Thread Bill Stewart
At 08:22 AM 08/02/2001 -0700, John Gilmore wrote: Just because it is public DOES mean it's declassified. There are Supreme Court cases on this. If the government can recover all the copies, then it can REclassify it. But if it can't, then the document is not classified. It's not that