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Federal agencies making scant progress in declassifying backlog

donal brown January 31, 2012

Two years after President Barack Obama ordered government agencies to come up to speed on declassifying 400 million pages of old records, there has been little progress. The failure to make more progress is a sign that the secrecy system considers itself immune from presidential orders, writes Steven Aftergood of Secrecy News. -db From a commentary in Secrecy News, January 30, 2012 by Steven Aftergood. Full story  

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Commission unveils war fraud, seals records for 20 years

donal brown November 1, 2011

After uncovering $60 billion in contractor waste and fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Commission on Wartime Contracting buried its internal records for 20 years. The Commission did release 8 reports and publish recommendations to avoid waste and fraud, but the decision to block access to the internal records and source material prevents the public and nonprofits from building on the work of the Commission, writes Jake Wiens, an investigator for POGO.  -db From a

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National Archives sitting on 9/11 Commission records

donal brown September 8, 2011

Although the 9/11 Commission ordered that their investigative records of al Qaeda’s attack on the United States should be opened to the public in 2009, the National Archives has not yet released the vast majority of the information. John Berger, an author who maintains a website with 9/11-related documents, said to withhold the information is not in the public interest since scholars and journalists are kept from analyzing the information.”You can point to things produced

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National Archives challenges CIA on destruction of tapes of brutal interrogations

donal brown November 15, 2010

The National Archives and Records Administration said they plan to investigate whether the CIA’s destruction of tapes showing brutal interrogations of terror suspects constituted improper destruction of federal records. -db NBC News November 10, 2010 By Michael Isikoff The legal inquiries into the CIA’s destruction of videotapes showing the brutal interrogation of terror suspects may not be over after all. A day after the Justice Department announced that a special counsel had concluded his investigation

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Conservative group sues for Clinton tapes of talks with historian friend

donal brown October 29, 2010

The Judicial Watch has sued the National Archive to obtain tapes of conversations between then-President Bill Clinton and historian Taylor Branch. -db The Washington Post October 28, 2010 By Spencer S. Hsu A conservative watchdog group has filed a lawsuit claiming that 79 recorded conversations between then-President Bill Clinton and his friend and historian Taylor Branch should be made public, citing openness in government laws passed after Watergate. Clinton quietly invited Branch to the White

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