Lawmakers Seek To Stop Reposting TSA Manual
December 10, 2009 by national
Filed under Homeland Security News
In a move to block reposting of leaked TSA security documents, several lawmakers are asking Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano to examine if any legal remedies are available. I’m curious if the status of the documents could be changed to “classified’, providing DHS the mechanism it needs to have the material removed.
In a letter addressed to Secretary Napolitano on Wednesday, members from the House Committee on Homeland Security expressed concerns over the “repeated reposting” of the security manual on multiple Web sites and asked her to clarify if the sites could be compelled to take it down.
The lawmakers also demanded to know if the DHS was considering new rules to prohibit such posting in future and if criminal penalties are “necessary or desirable to ensure such information is not reposted in the future.
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National Security guidlines and Executive Order clearly make it a felony to misuse national security and security classification to conceal a violation of law or to use national security for any other purposes.
This document was clearly labeled and not determined to be National Security material of a confidential, secret or top secret level prior to it’s release. This is a very slippery slope just like the Executive Branches:
a) Over inflation of the national security system in recent years making many items which were unclassified classified and many which were secret TS.
b) Misusing the unclassified term For Official Use Only (FOUO) for the expressed reasons stated internally in many cases to keep the media, public and in several cases Congress from recieving such information even in cases of things like natural disasters.
c) Missing HSPD – 12 and SF85P for other than intended purposes….esepcially when individuals already have security clearances, which is being challenged in court.
This nation is on a very slippery slope. A U.S. Supreme Court Judge in one of the early 20th century wire tap cases bascially stated that the greatest threat to our nation was not from without, but from those within, who in their over zealousness to protect, destroy the very things they are trying to protect — our freedoms. To paraphrase his comments.
The author is a Purple Heart recipient, civilian veteran of 9-11-01 attacks and Federal response, military veteran of two invasions, a civilian veteran of Iraq embedded with civil-military forces, and a homeland security professional. He is on LINKEDIN.