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Government task force proposes new policy for limiting distribution of unclassified but sensitive information

donal brown December 15, 2009

An Obama administration task force has released a report suggesting replacing more than 100 different markings now used to curtail the distribution of sensitive but unclassified information. Recommended changes would reduce inconsistency in practice across agencies and over-protection of information. -DB Secrecy News Federation of American Scientists Opinion December 15, 2009 By Steven Aftergood The government should replace the more than 100 different control markings that are now used to limit the distribution of sensitive

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Millions of missing Bush administration e-mails turn up

donal brown December 15, 2009

White House computer technicians discovered 22 million e-mails lost during the Bush administration. Two groups had filed Freedom of Information Act requests for the e-mails in connection to the firing of U.S. attorneys and the Valerie Plame-CIA scandal. -DB Wired December 14, 2009 By Kim Zetter White House computer technicians have found 22 million e-mails that were believed to have been lost during President George W. Bush’s administration, according to the Associated Press. The discovery

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Accountability and openness in government under attack in Texas

donal brown December 14, 2009

An editorial in the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal defends the Texas Open Meetings Act currently under attack in Texas courts and the legislature -DB Lubbock Avalanche-Journal Editorial December 11, 2009 Foes of open government are trying to turn back the clock on transparency and accountability in a two-prong attack on the Texas Open Meetings Act. They should be thwarted at every turn both in the courts and in the Texas Legislature. We’ve consistently argued since the act

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Experts say Posterous and Tumblr may promote government transparency

donal brown December 14, 2009

Some praise the speed and ease of social media such as Posterous and Tumblr and suggest that government agencies could use them to attract more readers to important government studies. But one open government expert urges caution in that Posterous and Tumblr are closed, proprietary systems, and there is no substitute for the government publishing its primary source data in a timely way so the public can give regular feedback. -DB MediaShift Commentary December 14, 2009 By

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CIA fears new open government initiative could allow anyone to glean classified information from unclassified documents

donal brown December 14, 2009

Faced with the new open government directive, the Central Intelligence Agency is trying to decide to release online declassified documents and noncopyrighted analyses of foreign news. They fear that information online could be extracted more easily and combined to reveal classified information. -DB NextGov December 11, 2009 By Alicia Sternstein The release of the open government directive could change intelligence agencies’ policies that deny Internet access to nonclassified data that is currently available only in hard

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