On 14 Aug 2005 22:57:40 -0700, "an_old_friend"
wrote in .com:

break
Most government secrets are justified, but a lot of secrecy has to do
with the government breaking it's own laws and international treaties.
That's not just a fact -- it's a time-honored tradition.

to enlarge on your statement... even more secrecy has to do with
maintaining appeanrces and the "face" of some folks involved For
example It is my understand that what a certain General had for meals
in "nam is still a secert so as not to emabarrish the miliatry admiting
that in diet and and housing etc rank doeth have its preledges"


Very true. When the Nassau docked in Haifa (1984), an unnamed Major
gave us the standard "behave yourselves, kiddies" speech before we
were released on liberty. That very night he (the Major) got drunk,
staggered into the street, got himself hit by a taxi and permanently
paralyzed. That's bad PR so they called in all the witnesses and swore
them to secrecy about the staggering-around-drunk part of the story.

BTW, for his "heroism" this Major went on to become an Olympic
torch-bearer.








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