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SECRECY NEWS – FISA SURVEILLANCE APPLICATIONS ROSE SLIGHTLY IN 2012
“During calendar year 2012, the Government made 1,856 applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for authority to conduct electronic surveillance and/or physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes.” That somewhat opaque statistic was disclosed in the Justice Department’s latest annual report to Congress on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, filed on Tuesday. As is usually…
SECRECY NEWS – SEQUESTRATION SLOWS DOCUMENT DECLASSIFICATION
The process of declassifying national security records, which is hardly expeditious under the best of circumstances, will become slower as a result of the mandatory budget cuts known as sequestration. Due to sequestration, “NARA has reduced funding dedicated to the declassification of Presidential records,” the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) said in a report…
Video – America’s Investigative Reports – Shooting the War
America’s Investigative Reports covers the photojournalists who created Unembedded, a book and photo exhibit by four independent photojournalists on the war in Iraq.
SECRECY NEWS – FBI TERRORISM INVESTIGATIONS, AND MORE FROM CRS
“Intelligence activity in the past decades has, all too often, exceeded the restraints on the exercise of governmental power that are imposed by our country’s Constitution, laws, and traditions,” according to the Congressional Research Service. The CRS, which shuns polemical claims, presents that assertion as a simple statement of fact (although cautiously sourced to the…
SECRECY NEWS – GROUPS URGE WHITE HOUSE TO TAKE LEAD IN REDUCING SECRECY
The White House should undertake a focused effort to reduce national security secrecy, some 30 public interest organizations urged President Obama in a letter today. Click to access steering.pdf The groups called upon the President to adopt a recommendation of the Public Interest Declassification Board to set up a White House-led Security Classification Reform Steering…
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