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Government indicts former CIA officer for leaks of classfied information to journalists

donal brown January 24, 2012

The Justice Department  is charging a former intelligence officer with leaking classified information to a journalist. The leaks included the names of covert officers and their work in apprehending terrorist suspects. The officer is charged with divulging to a New York Times reporter the contact information and details of activities of a covert CIA operative. -db From The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, January 23, 20112, by Andrea Papagianis. Full story  

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Prosecutors seeking testimony of New York Times reporter in national security trial

donal brown January 17, 2012

Prosecutors in the case of a former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling accused of leaking classified information are attempting to reverse a lower court finding that a New York Times reporter James Risen was exempt from disclosing his sources for a story on a CIA program to disrupt Iran’s nuclear program. The government prosecutors claim that there is no right for reporters to withhold identities of sources in criminal cases. -db From a commentary in Secrecy

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Federal appeals court supports CIA in refusal to confirm or deny that records of grandfather exist

donal brown January 3, 2012

The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. ruled that the CIA had the right to refuse to confirm or deny existence of records named in a Freedom of Information Act request. The refusal is called a Glomar response. The CIA had refused to provide information to a US. citizen seeking information on his grandfather, an Iceland citizen who allegedly was associated with the Icelandic Communist Party. -db From The Reporters Committee for Freedom

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CIA changes course, agrees to process request for documents on Open Source Works

donal brown December 15, 2011

The Central Intelligence Agency says it will now consider a Freedom of Information Act request for documents on Open Source Works, a new CIA open source intelligence division. An historian had asked for the charter of Open Source Works with the reply that the CIA could not confirm or deny the existence of the charter. -db From Secrecy News, December 14, 2011, by Steven Aftergood. Full story  

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State Department still says cables WikiLeaks released last year are classified

donal brown December 8, 2011

The Obama administration is still insisting that cables WikiLeaks released last year are classified even though the cables were released by the State Department in compliance with a Freedom of Information Act request. The classified information concerned targeted killings, detention at Guantanamo, torture and rendition. -db From a commentary for the American Civil Liberties Union, December 7, 2011, by Nathan Freed Wessler and Anna Estevao. Full story  

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