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Public denied details of bids for failed banks

donal brown August 31, 2009

Banking insiders are wondering why the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is no longer disclosing information on bids for failed banks. The information is needed to formulate future bids and should be available under the Freedom of Information Act. -DB American Banker August 24, 2009 By Marissa Fajt For decades, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. disclosed all bids on failed banks to the public. That was then. This is now: no disclosure on losing bids, no explanation

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Suit asks for records concerning warrantless searches of travelers’ laptops

donal brown August 27, 2009

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a Freedom of Information lawsuit in federal court to obtain records pertaining to the immigration and border policy of routinely searching traveler’s laptops. -DB Congress Daily August 26, 2009 The American Civil Liberties Union wants federal government records pertaining to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s policy of searching travelers’ laptops without suspicion of wrongdoing. The watchdog group filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit Wednesday in a New

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ACLU obtains document detailing CIA torture program

donal brown August 25, 2009

In response to an ACLU Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, the government turned over documents describing the interrogation techniques used by the CIA as late as 2007. -DB American Civil Liberties Union Press Release August 24, 2009 NEW YORK – The government today handed over to the American Civil Liberties Union a detailed official description of the CIA’s interrogation program. That document, a December 2004 CIA background paper sent to the Justice Department’s Office of Legal

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Federal government: New ‘sharing’ agency no guarantee to transparency

donal brown August 17, 2009

Secrecy News’ Steven Atergood says that the newly appointed Senior Director for Information Sharing Policy does not have a mandate for transparency. Rather, Aftergood asserts, “information sharing” does not include the public. -DB Secrecy News Federation of American Scientists Analysis August 17, 2009 By Steven Aftergood The Obama Administration is giving increased attention to the continuing post-9/11 challenge of information sharing, with a newly appointed White House Senior Director of Information Sharing Policy tasked to

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CIA retains information declassified for Libby prosecution

donal brown August 3, 2009

The CIA has refused to release information from the President’s Daily Brief that was declassified for the prosecution of former vice presidential aide Scooter Libby in 2006. -DB Secrecy News Federation of American Scientists Commentary July 29, 2009 By Steven Aftergood Even though certain information concerning the President’s Daily Brief (PDB) was redacted and declassified for use in the prosecution of former vice presidential aide Scooter Libby in 2006, that same information is nonetheless “currently

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