Now You Gone and Dun It
Four days ago, ArmsControlWonk pulled down a Joint Staff comments matrix on a draft joint pub, JP 3-12, Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations. This was a work in progress, updating a previous pub on the same topic. Well, as the post discusses, the comments matrix went into some discussion about certain topics that might stray into the classified lane (no classified information was leaked, but sensitive topics were referred to, such as the NSPDs). All joint publications and a good share of joint military discussion is posted on the Joint Electronic Library, along with the drafts of new pubs and pubs being updated.
Someone on the Joint Staff must have gotten wise and saw this as a potential security issue - well, at the least, the public probably shouldn't or doesn't need to have access to the comments matrix or draft pubs - and the ENTIRE JOINT ELECTRONIC LIBRARY is now off-line. The intent was to allow the services and combatant commands to access and work on the unclassified joint pub drafts over the unclass net, rather than working on the SIPRNET computers (which not everyone has access to). Now I can't get to my JP 1-02, DOD Definitions. Damn reliance on the internet... DAMN YOU ARMSCONTROLWONK! Damn your inquisitive, unAmerican meddling...
Kidding, man. You know I love you. But it is damned inconvenient...
I am blaming Human Rights Watch.
I don't understand why they took the JEL down, since the documents were in a seperate subfolder.
Sorry, man.
Posted by: Jeffrey Lewis | 08 April 2005 at 08:20 PM