Thursday, January 31, 2019

THE PENNY DROPS FOR CDS VANCE

 Blatchford:  That raised the spectre of a deliberate attempt by the Department of National Defence (DND) to thwart proper requests for information by using code names.
 Only then, Vance said, did the penny drop that it was all those damn military acronyms and nicknames (for instance, for Norman, the list includes C34, because he’s the 34th navy commander, and “The Boss” and “The Substantive VCDS or Vice CDS) which were confusing things.
  Why there wasn’t, he told Henein, anything “sinister” about those names. Heck, he said, “I’ve been aware of this list my whole life.”
  This wasn’t the institution “using code words to avoid having to respond” to ATI requests, heavens no. This was just military folks, speaking in jargon, being their impenetrable selves.

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