Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Center? What Center?

"When the Central Intelligence Agency established a Center on Climate Change and National Security in 2009,(  https://www.cia.gov/news-information/press-releases-statements/center-on-climate-change-and-national-security.html  )   it drew fierce opposition from congressional Republicans who disputed the need for an intelligence initiative on this topic. But now there is a different, and possibly better, reason to doubt the value of the Center: It has adopted an extreme view of classification policy which holds that everything the Center does is a national security secret...."

http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2011/09/cia_climate.html

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