http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2006/08/costs_of_secrecy_skyrocket_to_.html Secrecy News from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:11:08 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2006/08/costs_of_secrecy_skyrocket_to_.html/comment-page-1#comment-631 Robert Steele Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:53:46 +0000 http://fasweb.beacontec.com/blog/secrecy/2006/08/costs_of_secrecy_skyrocket_to_9_billion.html#comment-631 This is a very important posting for the public. I testified to the Moynihan Commission on Secrecy, and one of the points I made, apart from the varied costs of classifying the 80% of the information that is not really classified but is classified because the system is built for the "high side," was that for a third of the cost of "protecting" secrets, we could create an Open Source Agency able to gain us access to the 80% of the information, in all languages, the US Intelligence Community and all its consumers are unable to access now. This is a very important posting for the public. I testified to the Moynihan Commission on Secrecy, and one of the points I made, apart from the varied costs of classifying the 80% of the information that is not really classified but is classified because the system is built for the “high side,” was that for a third of the cost of “protecting” secrets, we could create an Open Source Agency able to gain us access to the 80% of the information, in all languages, the US Intelligence Community and all its consumers are unable to access now.

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