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	Secrecy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Secrecy is the practice of hiding information from others.
		The latter depends on the secrecy of cryptographic keys.
		Excessive secrecy is often cited as a source of much human conflict.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Secrecy (794 words)

	The secret history of secrecy - Salon
		Of course, there are secrets worth protecting, but a culture of secrecy has led to regrettable policy choices, wasted resources and a decline in public trust.
		Secrecy has become the rule under President Bush when it should be the exception.
		The lesson of Vietnam and Watergate The consequences of the bloated secrecy bureaucracy of the Cold War were revealed in the 1970s.
	dir.salon.com /story/opinion/feature/2004/03/22/secrecy/index.html (1406 words)

	Secrecy
		The word secrecy itself has become one of the most popular of the twentieth century and been elevated to the same verbal pantheon as management, planning, systems and efficiency.
		There is an interesting dichotomy visible between the idea of secrecy per se and the desire to appeal to the voyeurism of the public.
		Secrecy in regards to technology is itself a technology of subjugation.
	www.magusbooks.com /OGA/cop/secrecy.htm (3672 words)

	CNN Cold War - Book Excerpt: "Secrecy: The American Experience"
		In the United States, secrecy is an institution of the administrative state that developed during the great conflicts of the twentieth century.
		Government secrecy, as the commission was discovering, played a large role in all this.
		When the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy acquired the first Venona decryptions and a number of further releases now available in Venona: Soviet Espionage and the American Response, 1939-1957, the fine volume by Robert Louis Benson and Michael Warner, we were prompted to ask a simple, urgent, central question.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/06/book (999 words)

	OMB Watch - The Bush Administration's Secrecy Policy: A Call to Action to Protect Democratic Values
		The 6th Circuit, in ruling against secrecy said this summer, "Democracies die behind closed doors." However, the 3rd Circuit argued otherwise in a fall decision.
		Secrecy can be shown to be highly inefficient in protecting our hometowns in the aftermath of 9/11 as well as with regards to our national security.
		It may be useful to develop a Statement of Principles that articulates basic philosophy for openness in the post-9/11 environment, accompanied by the dangers of secrecy.
	www.ombwatch.org /article/articleview/1145/1/18 (3152 words)

	Secret 9/11 case before high court \| csmonitor.com
		Despite the heavy secrecy, a brief docketing error led to a newspaper report identifying MKB by name in March.
		Warden is the first indication that the Justice Department is extending its total secrecy policy to proceedings in federal courts dealing with habeas corpus - that is, an individual's right to force the government to justify his or her detention.
		In her petition to the court, Miami federal public defender Kathleen Williams says the judges' actions authorizing the secrecy without any public notice, public hearings, or public findings amount to "an abuse of discretion" that requires corrective action by the justices.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/1030/p01s02-usju.html (1125 words)

	Bush Secrecy Introduction
		By clicking on the links provided here, you can reach up-to-date summaries of each of the administration's major secrecy initiatives, with additional links from those summaries to key documents, such as executive orders, congressional materials, judicial decisions, and legal briefs filed by both sides in the court battles raging over these issues.
		The Bush administration’s fixation on secrecy is more than just ludicrous – it’s a serious threat to democracy and an insult to our nation’s history, says an Aug.
		The military presented the chart to a congressional committee in 1971, but the numbers, which became public, were redacted from a copy of the chart researchers received this year, according to the Post.
	www.bushsecrecy.org (658 words)

	SUNSHINE Week - Secrecy on the March: The Case for Sunshine Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		But it is possible to conceive that secrecy, a culture of secrecy, need not remain the only norm in American Government as regards national security.
		While overarching secrecy at the federal level is troubling for a nation, the epidemic of hidden government is reaching people at the state and community levels at troubling rates.
		Responding to this spreading culture of secrecy, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, with a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, launched the first national Sunshine Week in 2005.
	www.sunshineweek.org /sunshineweek/charts06 (1348 words)

	Secrecy Colloquium
		However, the openness of scientific exchange often is tempered by justifications for secrecy.
		The colloquium explored current and historical issues of secrecy facing university scientists in their work with industry and government.
		Speakers examinined the effects of secrecy on a wide range of scientific practices—in anthropology, medical research, biotechnology, cryptography, engineering, and information technology.
	www.aaas.org /spp/secrecy/AAASMIT.htm (311 words)

	Category:Secrecy - XFamily - Children of God (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A consistent trait throughout the history of The Family has been their aversion to government oversight and extreme secrecy surrounding leadership and finances.
		World Services (WS), the central administrative wing of The Family, continues to operate in complete secrecy, with very few members of The Family actually knowing their whereabouts or the identities of the members of those offices, most of whom operate under pseudonyms instead of their more commonly known "Bible names".
		Many of them have also legally changed their names and some sources have indicated that they have used fake passports in the past.
	www.xfamily.org /index.php/Category:Secrecy (384 words)

	Secrecy versus Privacy
		Even if it were legal, secrecy is not a solution because there are too many ways that a plaintiff's lawyers can uncover assets that have been hidden.
		As a practical matter, secrecy is useful in making it difficult for a lawyer to easily find out how much you are worth before the lawyer decides whether to sue you.
		The somewhat obvious trend of these efforts of the major high tax countries is to eliminate banking secrecy whereby citizens of one country can avoid taxes in their own country by establishing secret accounts in other countries.
	www.rpifs.com /secrecy-myth.htm (16009 words)

	Singapore Elections - Ballot Secrecy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		While some argue that it would be better to nullify an entire election if there is any such electoral fraud, calling for a fresh election would be too costly for taxpayers and traumatic for the electorate if there are only a few allegations of impersonation.
		Theoretically, it is possible for anyone with access to the ballot papers to identify who cast a particular vote.
		The ballot paper number is there to protect the integrity of the democratic process, and not to undermine the secrecy of the vote.
	www.elections.gov.sg /secrecy.htm (550 words)

	Archive, Secrecy Experts, Urge Court to Scrutinize Government Secrecy Claims
		The brief argues that secrecy does not always serve the goal of protecting national security, as the numerous investigations into the September 11 attacks on the United States all concluded.
		In the case of the NSL authority, the brief points out the particular dangers associated with a permanent and categorical ban on speech by recipients of NSLs and demonstrates the terrible impact that the rule has on government accountability.
		In addition to the Archive, the brief was filed on behalf of the Project on Government Secrecy of the Federation of American Scientists, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and the National Whistleblower Coalition.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB160/index.htm (269 words)

	SECRECY NEWS
		SECRECY NEWS is an email publication of the FAS Project on Government Secrecy.
		It provides informal coverage of new developments in secrecy, security and intelligence policies, as well as links to new acquisitions on our web site.
		SECRECY NEWS is also available in blog format here.
	www.fas.org /sgp/news/secrecy/index.html (243 words)

	Shhh!!: Keeping Current on Government Secrecy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Secrecy is also costly in terms of sharing information and being prepared to deal with threats to national security.
		The project "works to challenge unwarranted secrecy and to promote reform of national security information policy and practice." Aftergood is an active believer in representative and democratic government with a voice both passionate and thoughtful.
		The Coalition is an advocacy group for professional historians and archivists and lobbies Congress to ensure adequate funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Archives, the Library of Congress, and the Historic Preservation Fund.
	www.infotoday.com /searcher/jan06/Gordon-Murnane.shtml (5758 words)

	Groups raise concerns about increased classification of documents (10/27/04)
		Steven Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, describes it this way: "What I'm most concerned about are not the front-page news scandals.
		In a recent paper, Tapscott says that the midlevel federal bureaucrats who handle 99.9 percent of the 2.3 million FOIA requests annually know that they are immune from penalties for mishandling or ignoring these requests.
		And institutionalizing new secrecy rules is a complicated process, which requires compliance across a vast spectrum of government agencies.
	www.govexec.com /dailyfed/1004/102704nj1.htm (1451 words)

	Secrecy :: Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		We conflicted on a lot of things, and being as Kovu was an officer as well (Posidius' roommate), I always felt as if I was outnumbered everytime I brought something up to Posidius.
		If they are around, they're either still hanging on in Secrecy, or they're in Alarius.
		All I know is that I spent my time in Secrecy.
	secrecy.crystallized.com (2488 words)

	Wired News: All That Secrecy Is Expensive
		During the 2003 fiscal year, the federal government spent more than $6.5 billion securing classified information, according to a new "Secrecy Report Card" from OpenTheGovernment.org, a coalition of government watchdog and civil liberties groups.
		Some of the rise is understandable, with the government's increased focus on security since 9/11.
		But even some of Washington's leading authorities on government secrecy were caught off-guard by just how fast classification is increasing -- and just how much money it's taking to keep all that information locked away.
	www.wired.com /news/politics/0,1283,64731,00.html (667 words)

	Op Ed News Subjects Page for Secrecy / Transparency
		John Graham, President, the Giraffe Heroes Project: Secrecy and the Curtain of Oz...the last thing this Administration wants or needs is more public accounting of its failures and its assaults on civil liberties.
		An 80%-90% consensus on the right to view vote counting and opposition to secrecy by voting machine vendor is both rare and remarkable in American politics.
		The UAE Secrecy Myth The Bush administration has insisted that the law requires all information about the review of the United Arab Emirates port deal to be kept secret.
	www.opednews.com /maxwrite/showsubjects.php?tid=/Secrecy (6053 words)

	Secrecy & Privilege: Order today!
		Tracing investigative leads back through three decades, Secrecy and Privilege explores the mystery of how the two George Bushes rose to the pinnacle of American political power — and what the rise of their dynasty has meant to the nation’s democratic principles.
		Two ‘must-read’ books, Lost History and Secrecy and Privilege fill in missing chapters of modern U.S. history — from the truth about the Reagan administration’s complicity in drug trafficking of the 1980s to the real story of how the Bush Family’s rise to power transformed American democracy.
		When you order now, $10 from the purchase will be donated to Consortiumnews.com.
	www.secrecyandprivilege.com (138 words)

	definition of secrecy
		The state or quality of being hidden; as, his movements were detected in spite of their secrecy.
		As, Being, Concealed, Detected, Disclosure, Discovery, Fidelity, Forbearance, Hidden, His, In, Is, Movements, Of, Or, Privacy, Quality, Retirement, Seclusion, Secrecy, Secret, Secretive, Spite, State, That, The, Their, To, Were, Which
		As, Being, Disclosure, Discovery, Fidelity, Hidden, His, In, Is, Movements, Of, Or, Privacy, Quality, Retirement, Seclusion, Secrecy, Secret, Spite, State, That, The, Their, To, Were, Which
	www.brainydictionary.com /words/se/secrecy217207.html (152 words)

	FCW.com - Decrying secrecy, citizen groups fight back (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Steven Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, said a sensible policy has gone too far.
		The Bush administration might not have an official governmentwide policy on secrecy, but more agencies are removing information from the Internet, Aftergood said.
		Open-government proponents say the most blatant example of the government asserting its perceived right to impose online secrecy followed the 2001 terrorist attacks when Bush administration officials issued a memo directing federal agencies to scrub their Web sites of sensitive data that could possibly aid terrorists.
	www.fcw.com /article92400-02-27-06-Print (2247 words)

	FAS Project on Government Secrecy
		Federal, military and postal employees can make contributions to FAS by selecting #1152 in the Combined Federal Campaign's national/international charity list
		Secrecy Under Scrutiny by David E. Kaplan, U.S. News and World Report, March 20.
		"At a time of increasingly frequent battles over access to government records, U.S. News sat down with Steven Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, to discuss his relentless push for greater freedom of information."
	www.fas.org /sgp/index.html (239 words)

	Flickr: Photos tagged with secrecy
		Find, compare and buy secrecy and other products.
		Get a great price on secrecy and other products.
		You can assign as many tags as you wish to each photo.
	www.flickr.com /photos/tags/secrecy (96 words)

	Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy
		The pages retrieved from the online Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
		Secrecy: A Brief Account of the American Experience (746K)
		This document is sponsored by the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate on the United States Government Printing Office web site.
	www.access.gpo.gov /congress/commissions/secrecy/index.html (236 words)

	VirusHead - Because Language is a Virus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Bush administration, CIA prisons, Congress, geneva conventions, secrecy, Supreme Court, terrorism, torture, unamerican
		We have to register the fact that we are aware of these attempts to withhold information from the American people.
		Karpinski was referring to Captain Ian Fishback, one of three American soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division at Forward Operating Base Mercury near Fallujah who personally witnessed the torture of Iraqi prisoners and came forward to give testimony to human rights organizations about the crimes committed.
	www.virushead.net /vhrandom/index.php?tag=secrecy (4207 words)

	Special Investigations (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-3.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Henry A. Waxman has released a comprehensive examination of secrecy in the Bush Administration.
		The report analyzes how the Administration has implemented each of our nation’s major open government laws.
		Taken together, the Administration’s actions represent an unparalleled assault on the principle of open government.
	democrats.reform.house.gov.cob-web.org:8888 /features/secrecy_report/index.asp (526 words)

	Open The Government - Let's Reverse the Pattern of Secrecy
		Concerned that our government keeps from the American public information that we need to make our families safe, secure our country and strengthen democracy, a broad-based set of organizations formed OpenTheGovernment.org.
		The DVD of our national conference, "Are We Safer in the Dark, A Sunshine Week National Dialogue On Open Government & Secrecy," (March 2006) is available for purchase for $25.
		Government secrecy saw further expansion in 2005 despite growing public concern, according to our new report, Secrecy Report Card 2006 [PDF].
	www.openthegovernment.org (241 words)

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