SGM Private RallyPoint Member 335044 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div><a target="_blank" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-third-time-around-the-declassified-track-some-things-are-still-secret/2014/11/18/61b854c2-6f60-11e4-8808-afaa1e3a33ef_story.html?wpisrc=nl-headlines&amp;wpmm=1">http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-third-time-around-the-declassified-track-some-things-are-still-secret/2014/11/18/61b854c2-6f60-11e4-8808-afaa1e3a33ef_story.html?wpisrc=nl-headlines&amp;wpmm=1</a> <div class="pta-link-card answers-template-image type-default"> <div class="pta-link-card-picture"> <img src="https://d26horl2n8pviu.cloudfront.net/link_data_pictures/images/000/005/243/qrc/Merlin_248018.jpg?1443027590"> </div> <div class="pta-link-card-content"> <p class="pta-link-card-title"> <a target="blank" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-third-time-around-the-declassified-track-some-things-are-still-secret/2014/11/18/61b854c2-6f60-11e4-8808-afaa1e3a33ef_story.html?wpisrc=nl-headlines&amp;amp;wpmm=1">Your Pentagon at work, declassifying already-declassified information</a> </p> <p class="pta-link-card-description">Ten years after it gets the request, the Pentagon releases information that had been released 24 years earlier.</p> </div> <div class="clearfix"></div> </div> 2014-11-20T07:50:10-05:00 SGM Private RallyPoint Member 335044

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div><a target="_blank" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-third-time-around-the-declassified-track-some-things-are-still-secret/2014/11/18/61b854c2-6f60-11e4-8808-afaa1e3a33ef_story.html?wpisrc=nl-headlines&amp;wpmm=1">http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-third-time-around-the-declassified-track-some-things-are-still-secret/2014/11/18/61b854c2-6f60-11e4-8808-afaa1e3a33ef_story.html?wpisrc=nl-headlines&amp;wpmm=1</a> <div class="pta-link-card answers-template-image type-default"> <div class="pta-link-card-picture"> <img src="https://d26horl2n8pviu.cloudfront.net/link_data_pictures/images/000/005/243/qrc/Merlin_248018.jpg?1443027590"> </div> <div class="pta-link-card-content"> <p class="pta-link-card-title"> <a target="blank" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-third-time-around-the-declassified-track-some-things-are-still-secret/2014/11/18/61b854c2-6f60-11e4-8808-afaa1e3a33ef_story.html?wpisrc=nl-headlines&amp;amp;wpmm=1">Your Pentagon at work, declassifying already-declassified information</a> </p> <p class="pta-link-card-description">Ten years after it gets the request, the Pentagon releases information that had been released 24 years earlier.</p> </div> <div class="clearfix"></div> </div>

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<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I have long thought, <a class="dark-link bold-link" role="profile-hover" data-qtip-container="body" data-id="339587" data-source-page-controller="question_response_contents" href="/profiles/339587-46z-chief-public-affairs-nco">SGM Private RallyPoint Member</a>, that we're lucky if we know half the real truth about things that happen in world affairs, heck, even just things that make the news. When politics and politicians are involved, there's a tremendous need to keep the image and the electability of a person alive. (If they're not up for re-election or can't be re-elected, then it's the legacy.)<br /><br />Then there are legitimate times when information is kept from the public, like when it's truly classified.

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