Archive for August 8th, 2007

Known Knowns, All Over Again

RAND recently produced a new technical report on public information on transportation infrastructure. One quote from the report’s summary, while certainly true, reminds me all too much of Donald Rumsfeld’s poetic musings on known knowns and unknown unknowns:
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Sheer Absurdity

As longtime readers know, there are few things that amuse me in inappropriate ways like government, military, and corporate documents that are grossly overclassified, if not absurdly overclassified. Thanks to a kind reader, I’ve been alerted to what must be two of the most imposing-looking reports ever to come out of a CENTCOM component. Consider the ominous warnings:
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Published in: General, 'D' for 'Dumb', Security | on August 8th, 2007 | No Comments »