‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Friday, December 25, 2020 10:52 AM, Karl <gmkarl@gmail.com> wrote:
what does this mean? ... "To publish this article, I had to submit it for review to three separate organizations: the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, United States Cyber Command (my employer), and the National Security Agency (NSA). In total, it took just under two months to secure approval from all three organizations for public release, significantly longer than it took to actually write the article itself. And this is still substantially faster than Cyber Command’s process to review and approve actual cyberspace operations, a system subjected to similar redundancy and repetition."
in the intelligence community, a rule applies: "pre-publication review", for national security risks. see https://knightcolumbia.org/content/prepublication-review-by-agency-and-agree... ^- a handy matrix of agency specific requirements. best regards, P.S. this, among other reasons, is why you should *NEVER* sign a secrecy agreement - it binds you for life, and encumbers your ability to speak freely forever after...