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Greater transparency to federal spending on intelligence

donal brown November 2, 2010

Secrecy News’ Steven Aftergood says the Obama administration has abandoned tired old arguments against disclosure in revealing the total intelligence budget for 2010. -db Secrecy News Commentary November 1, 2010 By Steven Aftergood With last week’s disclosure of the total intelligence budget for 2010, including budget figures for the National Intelligence Program ($53.1 billion) and the Military Intelligence Program ($27 billion), the Obama Administration has provided a new degree of transparency on intelligence spending. The

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Minnesota: Federal judge kicks tea party garb out of polling places

donal brown November 2, 2010

A federal judge ruled that tea party followers could not wear tea party garb or buttons supporting a voter ID law when they went to the polls in Minnesota. -db Pioneer Press November 1, 2010 By Jason Hoppin A federal judge on Monday blocked an effort to allow conservative activists to wear “tea party” garb and buttons supporting a voter ID law into polling places on Election Day. Officials in Hennepin and Ramsey counties, the state’s

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Court costs in student press freedom case mount over 13 years of litigation

donal brown November 1, 2010

The College of Staten Island  prolonged litigation over a free press issue and although students only won a $9 judgment, court costs charged to the college could total over $750,000. -db FIRE Commentary October 28, 2010 By Azhar Majeed Over at the Student Press Law Center (SPLC), Adam Goldstein writes about Husain v. Springer, in which students at the College of Staten Island in New York sued the college president after she canceled a student

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Federal appeals court orders Obama to release names of those seeking presidential pardons

donal brown November 1, 2010

A federal court of appeals ruled that President Barack Obama could not withhold on privacy grounds the names of those seeking clemency. -db Wired October 29, 2010 By David Kravets Ruling in a privacy flap, a federal appeals court says the Obama administration must divulge the names of convicts seeking pardons or commutations of sentences. The Obama administration urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to rule otherwise. The government

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U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear challenge of campaign finance disclosure rules

donal brown November 1, 2010

A day before the elections, the Supreme Court opted not to hear a challenge to a lower court ruling that upheld disclosure requirements for money SpeechNow.org raised and spent. -db Courthouse News Service November 01, 2010 (CN) – The Supreme Court on Monday refused to weigh in on federal campaign finance disclosure rules the day before midterm elections. The high court rejected the appeal of SpeechNow.org, which challenged a D.C. Circuit ruling upholding disclosure requirements

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