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The people dealing with classified military secrets are such Chatty Cathys they can't help but blab about upcoming airstrikes to random strangers, so we need to

The people dealing with classified military secrets are such Chatty Cathys they can't help but blab about upcoming airstrikes to random strangers, so we need to prevent them from talking to strangers? If that's the case, shouldn't we also ban the top brass from restaurants, bars, churches and golf courses lest they encounter strangers there?

roenxi 1y ago
Why bother? It hasn't caused a major problem so far. This isn't new, it is how the world has worked for all of military history. I know classified US secrets, the leaks around the Snowden era were pretty interesting. Guarantee you the people in the building know more than me. The NOFORN stuff actually tends to be the spiciest if you feel an urge to go look at something.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago
  > This isn't new Strike packages being leaked before launch? Yes. Yes, that’s new. We spent a lot of time and money to get that access in WWII. It was what Turing built the Enigma to do.
mlrtime 1y ago
You made the counter argument, there is nothing stopping a journalist from talking to military personal outside of a building the handles secret documents. I'm surprised they were let in the building in the first place. Should I be allowed to go if I have a press pass?
- dialup_sounds 1y ago
  > there is nothing stopping a journalist from talking to military personnel outside of a building the handles secret documents Under the new rules this would not have been allowed, either, unless the information was pre-approved messaging.
jacquesm 1y ago
> The people dealing with classified military secrets are such Chatty Cathys they can't help but blab about upcoming airstrikes to random strangers, so we need to prevent them from talking to strangers? I can think of one. Name ends on Hegseth. And that same lying press and propaganda club that roenxi is arguing against here reported his gaffe pretty accurately, which if they had been who he claims they are they never would have.

roenxi 1y ago

Why bother? It hasn't caused a major problem so far. This isn't new, it is how the world has worked for all of military history. I know classified US secrets, the leaks around the Snowden era were pretty interesting. Guarantee you the people in the building know more than me. The NOFORN stuff actually tends to be the spiciest if you feel an urge to go look at something.

JumpCrisscross 1y ago
> This isn't new Strike packages being leaked before launch? Yes. Yes, that’s new. We spent a lot of time and money to get that access in WWII. It was what Turing built the Enigma to do.

mlrtime 1y ago

You made the counter argument, there is nothing stopping a journalist from talking to military personal outside of a building the handles secret documents. I'm surprised they were let in the building in the first place. Should I be allowed to go if I have a press pass?

dialup_sounds 1y ago
> there is nothing stopping a journalist from talking to military personnel outside of a building the handles secret documents Under the new rules this would not have been allowed, either, unless the information was pre-approved messaging.

jacquesm 1y ago

> The people dealing with classified military secrets are such Chatty Cathys they can't help but blab about upcoming airstrikes to random strangers, so we need to prevent them from talking to strangers? I can think of one. Name ends on Hegseth. And that same lying press and propaganda club that roenxi is arguing against here reported his gaffe pretty accurately, which if they had been who he claims they are they never would have.