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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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Federal judge rules FBI cannot withhold information about informant from Civil Rights era

donal brown February 2, 2012

A federal district judge ruled that the FBI could not use a Freedom of Information Act exclusion in denying access to records about a civil rights era photographer who was an informant for the agency. The judge said the FBI confirmed the relationship with their response to the FOIA request so could not then withhold the records. -db From The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, February 1, 2012, by Rachel Bunn. Full story

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Government watchdog alleges FBI stonewalling on WikiLeaks surveillance

donal brown January 31, 2012

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has sued the Justice Department and the FBI claiming that they refuse to release information on the FBI’s surveillance of citizens who have shown support for or interest in WikiLeaks. EPIC made the Freedom of Information Act complaint in federal court. -db From the Courthouse News Service, January 31, 2012, by Iulia Filip. Full story  

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Federal appeals court to consider suit over identity of informants

donal brown January 19, 2012

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will get another chance to protect the identity of informants in the investigation of a real estate kickback scheme in Hawaii. HUD had lost a round in an Hawaiian court when a three-judge panel said the agency failed to explain why it redacted the names of informants in documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act. -db From the Courthouse News Service, January 18, 2012, by Tim

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