A return to silence in a post-WikiLeaks world?

July 29, 2010 by legitgov

A return to silence in a post-WikiLeaks world? --Some lawmakers on Capitol Hill worry that the leaking incident will give the nation's 16 intelligence agencies an excuse to go back to old ways of holding back some information as "too sensitive" to be shared. 28 Jul 2010 Dismayed by the massive war-documents leak, intelligence experts are raising alarms that post-Sept. 11 changes promoting information sharing have made it too easy to lose control of the nation's secrets. Some intelligence veterans say it's time to rethink how widely classified material is shared at lower levels or, at the very least, to step up monitoring of the people who are given access. Both intelligence officials and outside experts suggested that agency chiefs may push to limit access to electronic "portals" that have provided growing data access to intelligence officers, diplomats and troops around the world.