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Post US intel on Internet: US lawmaker

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As mountains of raw intelligence go unanalyzed, the chairman of the House intelligence committee said that posting it on the Internet could speed up translation.

"I would like to get these documents into the public domain in hopes that academics, journalists, bloggers and other interested people can help clear this backlog," Pete Hoekstra said.

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phsolide ·
I've had a security clearance or two in my time, and I *NEVER* *EVER* came in contact with information that did anything other than bore me. "Aviation Week" always always always accurately reported on everything I knew about. And you can go read that at the library.

Like Ben Franklin once said, "Statistically, real threats are rare, but ambition and corruption are common. Overwhelmingly, the purpose of censorship is not the protection of national security, but the protection of individual careers. That's not ideology, but mathematics. Because there are very, very, few true national secrets, but a huge amounts of information that someone would like to bury for one reason or another."

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