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I don’t think this is quite what we had in mind:

A document providing confidential details of US civilian nuclear sites was accidentally posted on the internet, the government has admitted.

The 266-page document included the precise location of stockpiles of fuel for nuclear weapons, the Obama administration said.

The Government Printing Office website took down the posting on Tuesday after experts expressed concern.

US officials insisted the information detailed was not a security threat.

The document, which lists itself as “sensitive but unclassified”, contains maps and information on hundreds of US civilian nuclear sites.

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7 comments to Transparency in Government

  • Edward

    This is a criminally stupid release. I am waiting for all the names of those who work undercover to be “accidentally” released in the near future.

    I have absolutely no faith in this administration, save the faith that it is actively working to destroy this nation.

  • Quartermaster

    Lex, I love the tab. Buffoonery indeed!

    This is an administration of buffoons. It’s gonna be a long 4 years, alas.

  • Ray

    This is beyond stupid. It’s one thing to individually release certain things. It’s another to give people a *comprehensive* list of our nuclear infrastructure.

    The difference between giving the bad guys a map, and giving them a map with all the targets marked in red.

  • virgil xenophon

    Doesn’t this make us all so very, very glad to see the digitalization of all our medical records under Obama? Ostensibly to save money and facilitate analysis of “best practices” and transfer of an individual’s records accurately from specialist to specialist? Never mind the fact as to where physicians in pvt practice are going to come up with the $40,000 (proj. avg) to accomplish this. Never mind the potential use of the data to restrict procedures deemed “too risky and/or not cost effective. Never mind all that. If THIS can happen to something with SENSITIVE stamped on every page in old fashioned quill & ink fashion, what do you think the odds are of all the digitalized electrons containing our most pvt health info “migrating” to unauthorized hands under Obama’s “improved” health-care plan? And the stuff won’t even have a security rating!

  • G-man

    Where is Sandy Berger when you need him?

  • Mike47

    Our country is like a bus full of people careening down a steep mountain road with a monkey at the wheel.

  • Zane

    Umm, they weren’t “Confidential,” which is actually classified material. They were “Sensitive but Unclassified,” the catch-all for information that isn’t, well, classified, but that you usually want to deprive the public of. These documents used to be freely available, and after 9/11 they got SBU slapped all over them. Probably nothing was given away here that didn’t used to be in the public domain, thinking of all the things the NRC used to publish.

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