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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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Government watchdog asks Senate to investigate use of ‘Secret Holds’

donal brown December 3, 2009

Citizens for Responsiblity and Ethics in Washington has asked the Senate ethics committee to look into the practice of stalling or halting laws or nominations without public announcement given a 2007 law barring the practice. -DB Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Press Release December 2, 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) today asked the Senate Select Committee on Ethics to investigate senators’ failure to abide by a provision

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ACLU argues hiding torture photos weakens democracy

donal brown December 1, 2009

ACLU Blog Manager Suzanne Ito says that in keeping the torture photos secret, the Obama administration is setting a dangerous precedent by preventing public scrutiny of government misconduct and stifling ideas that could make government operations more just and effective. -DB American Civil Liberties Union Opinion December 1, 2009 By Suzanne Ito Yesterday, the Supreme Court sent back to an appeals court in New York our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for the release

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U.S. translations of Jihad literature not made public

donal brown November 30, 2009

U.S. government intelligence agencies are translating Jihad literature but, claiming national security concerns, are not sharing it with the public. A window into the literature opened recently when the DNI Open Source Center translated stories from an Indonesian Jihadist anthology. -DB Secrecy News Federation of American Scientists Commentary November 30, 2009 By Steven Aftergood “The only ones who are spending the money and time translating Jihad literature are the Western intelligence services,” wrote Islamic radical Anwar al-Awlaki,

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Supreme Court supports move to withhold photos of abused detainees

donal brown November 30, 2009

The U.S. Supreme Court vacated a decision of a federal appeals court to require the Pentagon to release photos of showing torture of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan. -DB Jurist November 30, 2009 By Jay Carmella The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday vacated and remanded a decision  by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that required the Pentagon to release photos of abused detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Court remanded Dept.

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