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	Secrecy News
		The new policy demonstrates that "this is an organization in freefall," according to one CRS analyst.
		None of the CRS personnel contacted by Secrecy News was able to explain exactly what propmpted CRS Director Mulhollan to issue the policy memorandum this week.
		While other parts of government strive to eliminate unnecessary obstacles to information sharing, the new CRS policy may be seen as an experiment in what happens when barriers to information sharing are arbitrarily increased.
	fas.org /blog/secrecy (2266 words)

	SECRECY NEWS
		SECRECY NEWS is a 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.
		Alternatively, if you use a news aggregator, you may subscribe to the Secrecy News RSS Feed.
	www.fas.org /sgp/news/secrecy/index.html (211 words)

	UNDERNEWS
		After repeated inquiries from The New Standard about the purpose of collecting personal details, Hicks said DOD "will be removing the boxes [on the form] that ask for personal data." As of press time, the registration website is still requiring participants to enter all information required by the original form.
		A new study by Stefano DellaVigna of the University of California, Berkeley, and Ethan Kaplan of the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University, however, casts doubt on this view.
		An appealing feature of their study is that it does not matter if Fox News represents the political center and the rest of the media the liberal wing, or Fox represents the extreme right and the rest of the media the middle.
	prorev.com /indexa.htm (13046 words)

	Consortiumnews.com
		New false arguments for staying the course have joined tantalizing suggestions of troop withdrawals just around the corner.
		New evidence implicates George W. Bush's political guru Karl Rove in a White House conspiracy that may have crossed the line into criminality in its haste to discredit former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who challenged Bush's use of intelligence on Iraq.
		The American news media also is helping out by mostly treating Posada as a non-story, even though the New York Times did finally put the Posada question on Page One.
	www.consortiumnews.com (3173 words)

	Industry News \| The Associated Press
		New Detroit Inc., a coalition of local leaders representing several groups, and 21st Century Newspapers Inc., the Michigan division of Trenton, N.J.-based Journal Register Co., agreed on a pact that seeks better communication between the newspapers and their communities, more diversity on newspapers' community advisory boards and guest columns from various viewpoints.
		NEW YORK (AP) — An anonymous tip that nearly landed Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper in jail probably was not valuable enough to justify a promise of confidentiality, his editor said Aug. 16.
		NEW YORK (AP) — More than a year after a campaign was launched against Nielsen Media Research for fear that a new counting system would shortchange fls, Nielsen says fls are watching more television in all six cities that are using the new electronic meters.
	www.ap.org /pages/indnews (11592 words)

	chez Nadezhda :: Main Page
		Jonathan Edelstein points to the willingness of the new President to consider far more regional autonomy than did his predecessor, Megawati, who was a centralist in the Suharto tradition.
		The new President is a former general who has, probably not all that gently, brought his old comrades around to seeing the merits of this resolution.
		It may be news to the Post and the NYT, but not to close observers of the Bush's second term Administration.
	cheznadezhda.blogharbor.com (8605 words)

	FindLaw's Writ - Dean: Hiding Past And Present Presidencies
		There was, and continues to be, an apparent policy of precluding news organizations and congressional leaders from access to anything other than managed and generic news about the war in Afghanistan.
		Certainly that is the implicit message in his new effort to preclude public access to Presidential papers — his, and those of all Presidents since the Reagan-Bush administration.
		While secrecy is necessary to fight a war, it is not necessary to run the country.
	writ.news.findlaw.com /dean/20011109.html (2072 words)

	Secrecy News from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
		Secrecy News from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy at "Agentura"
		We start to publish (at the right colon on our English home page - /english/) news from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy, with he permission of its director Steven Aftergood.
		The Project is directed by Steven Aftergood and is supported by grants from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Rockefeller Family Fund, the Stewart R. Mott Charitable Trust, and the HKH Foundation.
	www.agentura.ru /english/press/fas (108 words)

	CNN - Panel says government keeps too many secrets - Mar. 4, 1997
		Now, a congressional commission on government secrecy says the government's fondness for intelligence, a legacy of the Cold War, is threatening the democratic process.
		The commission proposes a new federal statute on how to classify documents -- there has never been one -- and a National Declassification Center to deal with billions of documents the public now dares not see.
		Even though it recommends less secrecy, the commission now predicts an even greater need for security for something its predecessor could not anticipate: computers.
	cnn.com /US/9703/04/government.secrecy/index.html (597 words)

	FindLaw's Writ - Dean: More Than Just His Location Remains Undisclosed
		Secrecy, however, is a tough sell, so they're going to have to attack some of their own as well.
		Secrecy itself has risen to the level of a policy of the Bush administration - and threatens to achieve the status of an end in itself.
		But nor should there be secrecy for secrecy's sake, as appears to be the case now with the Bush Administration.
	writ.news.findlaw.com /dean/20020524.html (2280 words)

	Wired News: Secrecy Suddenly a Campaign Issue
		Secrecy is considered a potential soft spot for the Bush White House, which government-openness advocates have pegged as the most closed administration in decades.
		Its reluctance to turn over records to the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks and its drive to keep the proceedings of Vice President Cheney's energy task force sealed are two of the biggest examples of moves that reinforce the sense that these guys have something to hide.
		That would be Acxiom, based in Little Rock, Arkansas, one of the biggest suppliers of ordinary people's personal information to government agencies, and one of two firms at the heart of the JetBlue privacy debacle.
	www.wired.com /news/politics/0,1283,61952,00.html (971 words)

	Consortiumnews.com
		Instead, the U.S. news media chucked out or “corrected” the U.S. exit polls — CNN made them conform to the official results — while embracing the Ukrainian exit polls as a true measure of the popular will.
		Then, the cherished value was “unity,” as Americans were urged to ignore the fact that Al Gore got more votes and instead rally behind George W. Bush, even though he had dispatched thugs to Florida to disrupt recounts and then enlisted his political allies on the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the counting of votes.
		But in those days after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the news organizations again opted for “unity” over “unvarnished truth,” fudging their own results and burying the lead of Gore’s electoral victory.
	www.consortiumnews.com /2004/112304.html (1009 words)

	Open Access News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Creative Commons is a new way for authors, artists, musicians, film makers, programmers and others to make their creative works available to the world.
		Webology is a new online journal in library and information science and "serves as a forum for new research in information dissemination and communication processes in general, and in the context of the World Wide Web in particular." Authors retain copyright and the journal is freely available, "for now." (Source: Diglet)
		OSI is providing $50,000 "to support the publication in open access journals of articles by authors residing and working in countries where the Soros foundations network is active." The funding covers article processing fees charged by OA journals for accepted articles and will be paid directly to the journals.
	www.earlham.edu /~peters/fos/2004_09_26_fosblogarchive.html (7562 words)

	Defense Tech: November 2004 Archives
		A company out of New York, EDO, put out a couple of press releases announcing their $45 million contract with the Army, to make radio frequency jammers that could block the signals triggering the IEDs.
		That's the story from the Deseret Morning News, which says that "'plans to implement an Installation Preparedness Program for first responders were substantially fragmented and ineffective," according to an Army Audit Agency report.
		News reports have also said Russia is believed to be developing a next-generation heavy nuclear missile that could carry up to 10 nuclear warheads weighing a total of 4.4 tons, compared with the Topol-M's 1.32-ton combat payload.
	www.defensetech.org /archives/2004_11.html (11402 words)

	Crypto-Gram: May 15, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		There is a continuum of secrecy requirements, and different systems fall in different places along this continuum.
		Because the secrecy requirements for security are rarely fl and white, publishing now becomes a security trade-off.
		It is you who are the new kids on the block applying historical best practices from these disciplines to so-called computer and information security and claiming conceptual credit.
	www.counterpane.com /crypto-gram-0205.html (5696 words)

	The Scientist :: CIA openness report to be classified?, Apr. 7, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		But last week, NRC's Kerry Brenner sent an e-mail to participants, passing along the message that CIA would be "assembling a short, classified summary" of the meeting, and touching off a torrent of questions from the scientists.
		Several had spoken at the meeting about the necessity for biosecurity consultation to take place in a new, open model of interaction between researchers and security agencies, one that would replace the secret dealings of Cold War days.
		Steven Aftergood, who tracks government secrecy issues for the Federation of American Scientists in Washington and who first brought the contretemps to light, called Forbes' response "a remarkable pirouette by the CIA," and a sign that the agency could meet the scientists halfway.
	www.biomedcentral.com /news/20030407/03 (713 words)

	SECRET NEWS SECRECY NEWS SECRETS NEWS \| HavenWorks.com/secrets News
		"But ABC News has obtained an independent report commissioned by the state of Maryland and conducted by Science Applications International Corporation revealing that the original Diebold factory passwords are still being used on many voting machines."...
		An explosive new book provides a rare glimpse into the full extent of the agency's controversial terror renditions — and the curious coalition of partners who helped the U.S. pull them off."...
		The complex arrangement was part of the CIA's sprawling practice of extraordinary renditions, the secret transfer of terror suspects to hidden prisons across the world — which has involved the aid of numerous foreign governments and the knowledge of key Western European allies, according to the book, which was shown to TIME by the author.
	www.havenworks.com /secrets (5510 words)

	CNN.com - Clinton aide slams Pentagon's UFO secrecy - Oct. 22, 2002
		The new initiative is not setting out to prove the existence of aliens.
		Podesta was one of numerous political and media heavyweights on hand in Washington, D.C., to announce a new group to gain access to secret government records about UFOs.
		The CFI director Ed Rothschild also works for Podesta's public relations firm, PodestaMattoon, which is coordinating the new group at the behest of the Sci- Fi channel.
	www.cnn.com /2002/TECH/space/10/22/ufo.records/index.html (717 words)

	Wired News: Spies Attack White House Secrecy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		NEW ORLEANS -- There's a "total meltdown" in America's intelligence services -- and the Bush administration's penchant for secrecy is one of the major reasons why, current and former top U.S. spooks charged Tuesday.
		To counter far-reaching, stealthy terrorist cabals, the country needs more openness, not less, they said Wednesday at Geo-Intel 2003, a first-of-its-kind conference here on the use of satellites in war, intelligence and homeland security.
		That kind of approach is all wrong, Thomas Behling, the deputy undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, told a group of nearly 1,400 spooks, geeks and defense contractors gathered in a ballroom at the New Orleans Marriott, on the edge of the French Quarter.
	www.wired.com /news/print/0,1294,60836,00.html (891 words)

	beSpacific
		From the New York Review of Books, this letter, Blocked, signed by a distinguished group of authors, journalists and researchers, responding to the CIA's refusal to produce copies of documents in response to a FOIA lawsuit under the 1992 JFK Assassination Records Act.
		According to a new report, online newspaper readership reached a highpoint in May 2005, with almost 44 million unique visits to a range of sites which accounted for about 30% of users online at both home and office.
		The Coalition of Journalists for Open Government has issued two new reports, one of which addresses overall federal agency responsiveness to FOIA requests (the overwhelming majority of which come from the public not the media), and the second which provides a review of FOIA litigation decisions during the period of 1999 through 2004.
	www.bespacific.com (1455 words)

	Bush Secrecy Introduction
		Here, Public Citizen chronicles and documents the administration's obsession with secrecy, as well as the steps we, and others, are taking to fight it.
		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.
		According to The New York Times, the Bush administration decided to waive any claim of attorney-client privilege because those papers are covered by the Presidential Records Act, which favors disclosure of documents covered by the act.
	www.bushsecrecy.org (1121 words)

	Dangerous government secrecy oaths \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		In an unprecedented and unwise expansion of government secrecy, the Department of Homeland Security has begun swearing its employees to silence, criminalizing the disclosure of information to the public – even if it is not classified.
		It stems from a distrust of the public and the belief that the public has no right to know what their government is doing.
		By muting government employees through secrecy oaths, the government is pulling an end run on public knowledge.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20041202/news_lz4e2schwell.html (698 words)

	Media Transparency: The money behind conservative media
		The White House responded with withering criticism of Newsweek and news media in general, claiming that they were unscrupulously using anonymous sources “to generate negative attacks” on the administration.
		Those openings are the target of the new Progressive Legislative Action Network (PLAN), a coalition developed to provide reform-minded legislators with strategic and research support as they seek to address the pressing economic and social issues that are left untended in a time of corporate hegemony.
		In an appearance on Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume, Cato Institute adjunct scholar Steven Milloy cited his study of radiation levels at the U.S. Capitol Building to argue that the health safety standards recently imposed on the proposed Yucca Mountain, Nevada, nuclear waste repository are unduly stringent.
	www.mediatransparency.org (2739 words)

	Harvard World Health News
		Most of the news stories did not disclose his financial ties to the drugmaker.
		Americans have always been obsessed with all things health-related, but today a drug can move almost instantaneously from medical research to miracle cure through news media that too often seem more interested in hype and hope than in critically appraising new drugs on behalf of the public.
		As this new responsibility dawns on patients, some embrace it with a sense of pride and furious determination.
	www.worldhealthnews.harvard.edu (3823 words)

	Palestine -- NewsFollowUp, TransparencyPlanet ...Promote biz/govt transparency
		Yet nobody doubts that when any new housing developments are completed, only people with "Jewish nationality" need apply.
		In the 1930's it was common for residents of white urban neighborhoods to enforce racial housing covenants, restricting the sale of property to negroes in "white areas".
		Israel's real challenge in the coming generation is not only to get back into a peace process, but to shore this up with a democratic revolution in civil rights; that is, to get Israeli Jews to "recognize Israel" (as a potentially inclusive, democratic state).
	www.newsfollowup.com /Palestine.htm (1960 words)

	Unknown News \| "The news you need, whether you know it or not." \| August 23, 2005 ...
		Excerpt: She was bitter and scared as a juror in the case and deeply offended at her treatment by fellow jurors, including one who said she would have herself to blame if anyone died because of the trial.
		Send news accounts about any court verdict anywhere in America since 2000 where the judge's decision is not based on either law or precedent, but instead seems to be made up out of thin air and whole cloth.
		This is a long article from THE NEW YORK TIMES, reiterating that in Iraq, mercenaries (the TIMES calls them "private security companies") are doing the work traditionally done by American military men, and being very well-paid for their work.
	www.unknownnews.net (2318 words)

	Government extends its secrecy shield \| Tech News on ZDNet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In its litigation, the Washington-based nonprofit group reminded the judge that the Energy Department is part of the intelligence community, and its budgets were published.
		Subcommittee members who heard the secret briefing later told me that limiting press coverage, not preserving national security, was the real reason the chairman closed the meeting.
		There are legitimate reasons for secrecy, but using the excuse of terrorist attacks to shield officials from embarrassment and critical scrutiny is unconscionable.
	zdnet.com.com /2100-1107_2-5102379.html (1146 words)

	Extra! Update: Behind the Pentagon’s Propaganda Plan
		That this shadowy agency contemplated misinforming foreign media is troubling for many reasons: It’s profoundly undemocratic, it would have put journalists’ lives at risk by involving them in Pentagon disinformation, and it might have been illegal, too.
		According to the New York Times, “one of the military units assigned to carry out the policies of the Office of Strategic Influence” was the U.S. Army’s Psychological Operations Command (PSYOPS).
		The OSI has been shut down, but the fact remains that a secretive, high-level office in the Pentagon was designed to manipulate the public by waging information warfare against the media.
	www.fair.org /extra/0204/osi.html (682 words)

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