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Dept. Of Homeland Insecurity: Website Outs Air Force One Details
SecurityProNews
Staff Writer
2006-04-10
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A document containing sensitive information about Air Force One's anti-missile capabilities, interior maps, location of Secret Service agents onboard, and how to detonate medical facility oxygen tanks came from an unlikely source - a United States Air Force website.
The finding was relayed to the Air Force and the Secret Service by the San Francisco Chronicle. The Secret Service would not comment on the document, says Paul Caffera, but the Air Force voiced some concern:
"It is not a good thing" for that information to be in the public domain, said Lt. Col Bruce Alexander, director of public affairs for the Air Mobility Command's 89th Airlift Wing, Andrews Air Force Base, which operates the presidential air transport fleet. "We are concerned with how it got there and how we can get it out. This affects operational security."
Daily Tech points out that as late as this morning (the SF Chronicle article was published Saturday) the information discussed was found within a few hours, including "dozens of technical documents freely available with a lot of Air Force One's capacities mentioned."
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