[Infowarrior] - Army peeved at FAS for posting OPSEC document

[Richard Forno]

Anyone else amused at the irony here?  It's been how many years and the
government still doesn't understand how the Internet works?  Talk about slow
learners!

-rf


> SECRECY NEWS
> from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2007, Issue No. 48 May
> 7, 2007
> 
> Secrecy News Blog:  http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/
> 
> Support Secrecy News:
> http://www.fas.org/static/contrib_sec.jsp
> 
> ARMY DOCUMENTS POSTED "ILLEGALLY," ARMY SAYS
> 
> A U.S. Army official told the Federation of American Scientists that
> Army documents on the FAS web site had been published by FAS "illegally"
> and must be removed.
> 
> "There are only 5 Official Army Publications Sites," wrote Cheryl Clark
> of the U.S. Army Publications Directorate in a May
> 4 email message.  "You are not one of them."
> 
> "You can link to our publications, but you cannot host them,"
> she wrote.
> 
> Furthermore, she indicated, a recent Army Regulation on "Operations
> Security" (first published by Wired News and mirrored on the FAS site)
> was "not intended for Public release."
> 
> "Please remove this publication immediately or further action will be
> taken," Ms. Clark warned.
> 
>      http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2007/05/sa050707.html#req
> 
> "I have considered your request that we remove Army publications from
> the Federation of American Scientists web site," I responded today.  "I
> have decided not to comply."
> 
> By law the Army cannot copyright its publications, the response
> explained.  Nor is FAS, a non-governmental organization, subject to
> internal Army regulations on information policy.
> 
> "Accordingly, our publications are not illegal nor in violation of any
> applicable regulation."
> 
>      http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2007/05/sa050707.html
> 
> To eliminate potential confusion, we added a disclaimer to our Army
> doctrine web page indicating that the FAS collection of Army records is
> not an official Army source, and directing readers to several such
> official sites.
> 
> 
> THE EVOLUTION OF ARMY OPSEC
> 
> The recent evolution of Army operations security (OPSEC) policy can be
> traced from the 1995 regulation on the subject--
> 
>      http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/ar530-1-1995.pdf
> 
> to the 2005 revision--
> 
>      http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/ar530-1-2005.pdf
> 
> to the latest iteration of April 2007--
> 
>      http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/ar530-1.pdf
> 
> In response to reporting by Noah Shachtman of Wired News and the Danger
> Room blog, the Army issued a Fact Sheet on May 2 asserting that Army
> OPSEC policy on military blogging was
> unchanged:
> 
>      http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/army/blog050207.pdf
> 
>