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Originally Posted by ambient
Here, let me have Admiral McRaven explain it to you. He knows a bit more about this than you do (or me).
Hopefully that clears it up...
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All servicemembers who hold clearances are held to the same obligation. There is no special one just for S.F.
I am glad that you found and posted this, as an explanation of what I said to you. I hope it does explain to you how this works
What I did not know that was that are willing to pre-review books. Thank you for that detail, I did not know.
A LCDR I served under on my first boat [Ralph Chatham], was named and thanked in the front cover of Tom Clancy's first book, for revealing so much to him. I was surprised to see it. As I knew the guy. When I read that book, I was shocked at how much classified information they had exposed.
Ralph was charged and imprisoned. However as it turned out Ralph had done his homework, and he had documented each classified item and found where Congress had already revealed each of them to the public. So in Clancy's Novel no individual secret was being revealed for the first time. The DOD dropped the charges against Ralph and Tom, eventually Tom was picked up as a mascot. Given tours and encouraged to write more, which was when he shifted to using ghost writers.
In that case, I was certain that Ralph had violated the law, as many of those things were classified as far as I knew. But Congress had already published each of those tidbits. So Ralph was able to prove that he and Tom were quoting Congressional speeches.
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