(the number of federal agencies)-odd number of completely incompatible digital records systems proposals.

Agreed. This merely shows the rest of us that not only CAN it be done, but that it HAS been done and certainly CAN be done in the future!

Hiding the information just gives those who want to keep it all for themselves more time to do awful things.

I didn't realize that our identities were so worthless. Whether it is attributed to evil, or a lack of humanity on the part of the two employees, this represents a fundamental problem among people today: "Doesn't affect me, so I don't care."
I believe that will destroy us even faster than bank collapses or political corruption, in a sense because those maladies are results of the "I don't care" problem. "I can buy these horrible securities, if it goes bad, it doesn't affect me, so I don't care", "My constituents want this, sure it'll put 100,000 people out of work, but it doesn't affect me, so I don't care", "Hell I'll sell peoples identities, sure they'll be plagued by this for a matter of decades to come, but it doesn't affect me, so I don't care."
People need to care about things that don't affect them or else this world is very very doomed.

You too!? I was always disappointed when I opened my eyes on the other side and saw more hospital ceiling....

in an electromagnetically charged TUBE is still unfun. Where's my tricorder already?!

So what now? It's not like we can show this to Verizon and go "HAH! SEE! TOLDJA SO!" and expect them to unlock anything. If anything they've known about this for a very long time.

Life goes on. Corps always win in our system as it is. This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.

SO FOR GODS SAKE PEOPLE STOP THE GRATUITOUS LAMENTING

In a sense this is a good thing. It shows that when you really get down to it, we still really understand very little about the universe and how things are formed/created. A little humility never hurt.

Good point but the reason I think what I do is the sheer fact that the leakers didn't just leak everything themselves or to the press directly. They went through Wikileaks. There has to be a reason, and that was the only one I could think of that made decent sense. :)

Which, you will note, I didn't. :)

No this is a huge issue for Wikileaks. They got most of their documents from people on the inside who needed and WANTED the ASSURANCE that some of what they were handing wikileaks would be redacted, like operative names, and informant information. They wanted it to be a RESPONSIBLE release of information, one that doesn't have to be OK'd by the very people it would embarrass.

Now that wikileaks can't be trusted with keeping the UNREDACTED versions safe, they will lose a lot of sources.

Booooooooooooooooooooring~~~~~~~~ (that's why)

Exactly!! They just FINISHED the damn thing! What a waste!

Well I found the site by browsing from the main NG site. (Didn't try the summary link) Here joo go: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/05/110520-area-51-secret-hid-craft-base-declassified-a-12-plane/

(yeah, it's sarcasm, folks)