FC: Secret U.S. nuclear policy documents appear, surprise, on the web

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

From the Federation of American Scientists:

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NUCLEAR POSTURE REVIEW EXCERPTS NOW ONLINE

Significant excerpts from the classified Nuclear Posture Review (NPR)
report on U.S. nuclear weapons policy that was leaked to the press last
weekend have now been posted on the website of GlobalSecurity.org, a
policy research organization directed by John Pike:

     http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/policy/dod/npr.htm

"Needless to say, whoever leaked it violated federal criminal law," said
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld at a March 13 press briefing.
"It seems that there are some people who simply have a compulsion to
seem important, so they take classified information which can damage
U.S. national security and give it to people who aren't cleared for it,"
Rumsfeld added.  See:

     http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2002/03/dod031302.html

But Administration officials have stressed that the NPR report is a
policy document, not an operational plan.  As such, critics as well as
supporters across the political spectrum have argued that it properly
belongs in the public domain.




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