[FedCom] FOUO

[Ben Russell]

The FOUO designation is so frequently used on DHS prepared documents it makes
me laugh.

I'm a member of a regional hazmat team and have myself plugged in to numerous
info sources as a result.  http://www.disasterhelp.gov is one of the many
federal money pits created after 9/11.  If you sign up on that site (go ahead,
they don't even verify your info, apparently, since I was instantly cleared),
you can sign up for regular bulletins that arrive in your inbox.

These bulletins cover a variety of terrorism related and other emergency
topics.  I got one recently that was an assessment of the US rail system.  The
document was marked FOUO (as are all the other DHS documents you get).  What,
exactly, was FOUO in this document?  I'm still wodnering.  The thing was so
simplistic, it was ridiculous.  I could have written a better assessment after
10 minutes of reading my railroad history books and some websites.  

FOUO seems to me to be a way to make people feel more important.  "I have FOUO
information and you don't."  Puhlease.

Ben

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