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Attorney General subpoenas New York Times reporter over book on C.I.A.

donal brown April 29, 2010

A lawyer for New York Times reporter James Risen says he will honor his commitment to keep his sources confidential in resisting a subpoena to provide documents about his 2006 book about the Central Intelligency Agency.  -db The New York Times April 28 2010 By Charlie Savage WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Obama administration is seeking to compel a writer to testify about his confidential sources for a 2006 book about the Central Intelligence Agency, a

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CIA admits destroying tapes of abusive interrogations

donal brown April 19, 2010

The Central Intelligence Agency admitted that the agency’s top officials destroyed hundreds of tapes depicting abusive interrogations of suspects. -db The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press April 16,2010 By Miranda Fleschert The Central Intelligence Agency released email messages on Thursday that reveal the former director of the agency approved of — and joked about — the decision made by top officials to destroy hundreds of tapes depicting the abusive interrogation of detainees in

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Government lawyer argues torture suit too sensitive for public court

FAC December 16, 2009

Citing national security and state secrets, a Justice Department lawyer argued that the suit involving the CIA and a San Jose company over extraordinary rendition and torture of suspected terrorists cannot proceed in open court. -DB San Francisco Chronicle December 16, 2009 By Bob Egelko SAN FRANCISCO — A lawsuit accusing a Bay Area flight-planning company of aiding an alleged CIA program of kidnapping and torturing terror suspects threatens national security and is too sensitive

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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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Secrecy News cites two agencies that need to get with the program on new federal transparency

donal brown December 10, 2009

The director of the Program on Government Secrecy says that key government departments are responding to the new open government directive but that two agencies stand out for blocking public access, the CIA and the Open Source Center. -DB Secrecy News Federation of American Scientists Commentary December 10, 2009 By Steven Aftergood The Obama Administration’s new open government policy has begun to elicit a response from executive branch agencies. The Department of Defense, the Department of

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