17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On a fair number of occassions I have been told that federal type folks have made statements to the effect that there is no such thing as a "TOP SECRET" classification of US government docs. Since really secret things tend to get neither confirmed nor denied, I am inclined to believe this. Thus SECRET is the top classification in today's government/military. If anybody knows otherwise I would be interested in the information.
JWS
Well, I don't hold (and have never held) a clearance, but I've seen declasified/sanitized documents that have crossed out "TOP SECRET" markings all over them. -matt