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What if the emperor has no secrets?

Maybe the administration’s problem is that they don’t really have any good secrets but want us to think they do. They were just a little over-zealous faking it in this case:

On Monday, the Washington Post ran a fascinating story based on a report from the National Security Archive, a research library at George Washington University. According to the report, the Bush administration has been blacking out of previously public documents information on the nation’s strategic military capabilities. It is doing this, it says, in the name of national security. Got a question on the Minuteman missile? Tough. Curious about the Titan II? Too bad.

Now maybe you wonder what the problem is. This is sensitive information we’re talking about, right? Can’t have that falling into just anybody’s hands, right?

The thing is, it’s already in “anybody’s” hands: it dates back

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