Just because it is made public doesn't mean it's declassified

[Paul Merrill]

Even if all sources were unclassified, there still
looms Classification by Aggregation. (An NSA phone
number is Unclass; the NSA phone Book is
Confidential.)  Ultimately, the pulled Clearance/loss
of contract is the Tall Peg.

PHM 
--- Bill Stewart <bill.stewart at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> At 08:22 AM 08/02/2001 -0700, John Gilmore wrote:
> >Just because it is public DOES mean it's
> declassified.  There are
> >Supreme Court cases on this.  If the government can
> recover all the
> >copies, then it can REclassify it.  But if it
> can't, then the document
> >is not classified.
> 
> It's not that straightforward, because Postol has a
> security clearance,
> so he's under more restrictions than somebody who
> doesn't.
> 
> If he obtained the information entirely from
> already-public sources,
> as opposed to obtaining documents with
> classification markings
> that don't also have declassification markings on
> them,
> he should be safe from prosecution, but that doesn't
> mean they
> can't pop his security clearance for it.
> 
> 
> 
> 


=====
Paul H. Merrill, MCNE, MCSE+I, CISSP
* PaulMerrill at ACM.Org

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