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Justice Department refuses to declassify opinion on legality of warrantless surveillance

donal brown August 29, 2011

The Justice Department has refused to declassify a 2001 opinion written by John C. Yoo on the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance program. Critics of the program want to obtain the entire 21-page opinion to make sure misguided legal opinions do not live on to guide government policy. -db From Secrecy News, August 26, 2011. by Steven Aftergood. Full story

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Federal secrecy: Complaint to fight gratuitous classification

donal brown August 4, 2011

The former head of the Security Oversight Office, J.William Leonard, has filed a complaint against two federal agencies for classifying a document that has no secrets. The complaint asked that officials be punished for overclassification. Leonard said in his 34 years in government, he often saw documents unnecessarily classified as secret, and no one was ever punished for it. He said that since the government is indicting workers for leaking classified information, it is essential

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Whistleblower gets plea deal, dodges espionage conviction

donal brown June 11, 2011

A former employee of the National Security Agency, Thomas A. Drake, charged with espionage for leaking classified information, struck a deal with the Justice Department admitting to a misdemeanor of using NSA’s computers to to provide information to a reporter for the Baltimore Sun. It is expected that Drake will not have to serve any jail time. Drake claimed he leaked information to the reporter out of concern that the agency was wasting taxpayer money

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Government agencies erasing crucial e-mails

donal brown March 8, 2011

Government agencies are failing to maintain records of e-mails prompting concern that the agencies will not be able to fufill their mission and that the citizen’s right to hold government accountable will be seriously compromised. According to a survey conducted by the National Archives and Records Administration, among missing e-mails were thousands improperly destroyed by the Justice Department just as an investigation of the 2002 “torture memos” began. -db From NextGov, March 4, 2011, by

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National Archives challenges CIA on destruction of tapes of brutal interrogations

donal brown November 15, 2010

The National Archives and Records Administration said they plan to investigate whether the CIA’s destruction of tapes showing brutal interrogations of terror suspects constituted improper destruction of federal records. -db NBC News November 10, 2010 By Michael Isikoff The legal inquiries into the CIA’s destruction of videotapes showing the brutal interrogation of terror suspects may not be over after all. A day after the Justice Department announced that a special counsel had concluded his investigation

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