Men in Gray

I've been poking around a pile of fiscal 2010 budget justification documents that recently surfaced on the Defense Department Comptroller Web site. I found a rather yummy item in the proposed procurement budget for the Defense Information Systems Agency.

Slogging through hundreds of pages of teeny type, I came across a line item for DISA to integrate a bunch of anti-drug systems into one "effective network." (Who wants an ineffective network?)

Among the DISA-developed systems were the Ant-Drug Network Classified, the Anti-Drug Network Sensitive but Unclassified and a critter called "Throttle Car (a black program).

To find out exactly how "black" Throttle Car is, I typed it into Google and about five screens into the search, came across some April 2004 testimony by Thomas O`Connell, who at the time was assistant secretary of Defense for special operations and low intensity conflict, who was more than happy to tell the House Government Reform Committee's Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources exactly what a Throttle Car was: "a critical data warehousing effort jointly funded by the Department of Defense and the Drug Enforcement Administration."

Since DISA has declared Throttle Car "black," does this mean the agency will try to expunge O'Connell's testimony - and now this item - from the Internet?