re: #29 Radar G

It’s part of the package? Huh? Yes, that’s true, provided that you are currently under contract. Last month my IRR time ended as my 8 year contract expired. I currently owe nothing more to the military. What constitutional rights, pray tell, have I lost for all eternity?

Actually, you are still required to protect any classified information you have knowledge of as a result of having been granted that access in the first place, until any restrictions on such release expire or are waived. Even then, the particulars of the program(s) you were cleared for may not allow you to divulge such information without express written permission. Penalties vary from program to program, but are typically characterized by maximums in the neighborhood of 20 years in a Federal penitentiary and $100,000 in fines for violations. The United States doesn’t have anything like Britain’s Official Secrets Act, so ordinarily there are no prosecutions for release of classified information when the secondary source is a private citizen not read on to a closed program. But you sign away that exemption when you are read on.

Don’t know if you consider that unconstitutional - I wouldn’t - but the chances are extremely good that the expiration date on any classified information you are knowledgeable of far exceeds your period of military service.