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Federal judge orders former CIA official to forfeit book earnings

donal brown April 24, 2012

A federal judge ruled for the CIA on a dispute over the profits of a book a whistleblower wrote without the  agency’s permission. The whistleblower said the book contained no classified information, and its profits were donated to accounts belonging to children of U.S. soldiers killed in action. -db From The Washington Post, April 20, 2012, by the Associated Press. Full story  

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Former CIA officer indicted for leaking classified information about Guantanamo interrogations

donal brown April 16, 2012

A former CIA agent has been charged with violating the Espionage Act by leaking classified information on the Guantanamo interrogations to reporters. Ex-CIA agent John Kiriakou worked for the CIA from 1990 to 2004 and is among six government employees charged in recent years with violating the Espionage Act by talking to the media. -db From the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, April 13, 2012, by Andrea Papagianis. Full story    

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Federal judge rules against CIA in case involving declassification review

donal brown April 3, 2012

The CIA flubbed it in making a search under the Freedom of Information Act for information on a Mandatory Declassification Review program. A federal judge ruled that the agency failed to make the case that  it conducted a reasonable search and illegally  narrowed the scope of the search. -db From the Courthouse News Service, April 3, 2012, by Ryan Abbott. Full story  

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Federal Communication Commission outdoes CIA in secrecy

donal brown March 22, 2012

Data showing  responses to federal Freedom of Information Act requests indicate that the Federal Communications Commission is the most secretive government agency, even outdoing the Central Intelligence Agency. The FCC is rejecting FOIA requests at the rate of 48 percent dwarfing all other government agencies. The CIA by contrast rejects requests at the rate of 0.7 percent. -db From The Daily Caller, March 21, 2012, by Josh Peterson. Full story    

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CIA makes use of review process of classification documents more difficult

donal brown February 13, 2012

The Central Intelligence Agency has made it harder to use the Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) process to challenge classification status of government records. Classifications have been overturned  through the MDR, but now the CIA is charging those using the review process up to $72 per hour even if no documents are found or released. -db From a commentary in Secrecy News, February 13, 2012 by Steven Aftergood. Full story  

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