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Re:Our three year saga to release 13M pages of CIA secrets by dgrealy on Sunday January 22, 2017 @03:11AM (#13454223)
The CIA keeps secrets for a reason. All this armchair talk from prople wanting to get CIA material into the open is pure idiocy.

Stupid and dangerous. You know these are the people who protect you from all manner of sabotage and manipulation from foreign nations right?

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Re:Our three year saga to release 13M pages of CIA secrets by rl3 on Sunday January 22, 2017 @05:23AM (#13454555)
Declassified CIA material holds immense historical value. Each document is reviewed prior to release to ensure there's no harm done to national security.
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Re:Our three year saga to release 13M pages of CIA secrets by dgrealy on Sunday January 22, 2017 @05:51AM (#13454635)
Declassified is fine, and that's what this is about ... I just see too many people with no respect or knowledge thinking that secrets are by nature some sort of problem, and wanting classified things to be in the public domain.
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Re:Our three year saga to release 13M pages of CIA secrets by ionised on Monday January 23, 2017 @10:26AM (#13462787)
Just classify everything then. Problem solved.
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Re:Our three year saga to release 13M pages of CIA secrets by JoeAltmaier on Monday January 23, 2017 @10:27AM (#13462796)
CIA material is extremely time-sensitive. Anything a year or two stale is probably fine to expose. In fact the attempt to hide every CIA activity from public scrutiny is so repressing and dangerous to a free society, that some risk is certainly warranted. Release the documents.
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Re:Our three year saga to release 13M pages of CIA secrets by ionised on Monday January 23, 2017 @10:25AM (#13462783)
It's good to see satire and parody thriving in the age of Trump
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