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July 07, 2008 05:02 PM EDT --
By classifying some recent Presidential directives on homeland security and restricting their disclosure, the Bush Administration has impeded their effective implementation, the Senate Appropriations . . .
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June 27, 2008 05:42 PM EDT --
Monday, June 30 marks the 100th anniversary of the Tunguska incident in 1908, in which a meteor or comet fragment entered the atmosphere over Tunguska in Siberia producing an enormous explosion.
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April 16, 2008 11:42 AM EDT --
Some unauthorized disclosures of classified information in the press can serve a constructive purpose, Sen. John McCain allowed. And so he expressed support for a pending press "shield" . . .
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April 15, 2008 09:14 PM EDT --
SENATE MULLS CHANGES IN INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT
The Senate Intelligence Committee has recommended creation of a new
Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Intelligence to prepare the
annual intelligence . . .
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April 15, 2008 09:09 PM EDT --
U.S. intelligence agencies have embarked upon a process to develop a
uniform classification policy and a single classification guide that
could be used by the entire U.S. intelligence community, . . .
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April 03, 2008 12:45 PM EDT --
The Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel memo on interrogation of enemy combatants that was declassified this week "exemplifies the political abuse of classification authority," . . .
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February 28, 2008 08:19 PM EST --
"The disdain and uncooperative nature that this administration has
shown toward Congress... is so egregious that I can no longer assume
that it is simply bureaucratic incompetence or isolated . . .
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February 28, 2008 02:13 PM EST --
"The disdain and uncooperative nature that this administration has shown toward Congress... is so egregious that I can no longer assume that it is simply bureaucratic incompetence or isolated mistakes. . . .
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February 21, 2008 03:44 PM EST --
The U.S. Army said today that it would restore public access to the online Reimer Digital Library of Army publications, after having blocked the site on February 6.
Last week, the Federation of American . . .
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February 13, 2008 04:13 PM EST --
The Department of Defense has released the final version of its controversial doctrine on "detainee operations " (pdf) which defines the class of unlawful enemy combatants and prescribes their . . .
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February 13, 2008 04:02 PM EST --
Public access to the Reimer Digital Library , which is the largest online collection of U.S. Army doctrinal publications, has been blocked by the Army, which last week moved the collection behind a password-protected . . .
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January 03, 2008 01:59 PM EST --
DOJ ATTORNEYS DAMAGED SECRECY OVERSIGHT, FAS COMPLAINT SAYS
Attorneys at the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel violated the executive order on classification and damaged oversight of . . .
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December 06, 2007 03:54 PM EST --
When the Central Intelligence Agency released several declassified
histories of its clandestine services program this week, it seemed like
a solid indication of progress towards opening . . .
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November 14, 2007 10:00 PM EST --
An Iranian religious leader reiterated last week that not only is Iran
not pursuing nuclear weapons, but that to do so would be a violation of
Islamic law.
"Production of nuclear bomb and . . .
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October 19, 2007 10:05 AM EDT --
In a remarkable episode from the Civil War that is not as widely known as it might be, General Ulysses S. Grant issued Order No. 11 on December 17, 1862 expelling all Jews from Kentucky, Tennessee, . . .
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October 15, 2007 12:38 PM EDT --
IMPLEMENTING DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE
Upon lawful request and for a thousand dollars, Comcast, one of the nation's leading telecommunications companies, will intercept its customers' . . .
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October 09, 2007 01:07 PM EDT --
BILL ON CONTRACTOR LIABILITY RAISES INTEL AGENCY CONCERNS
Last week the House of Representatives passed a bill to extend federal legal jurisdiction to crimes committed abroad by U.S. contractors in war . . .
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September 26, 2007 04:50 PM EDT --
SYRIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE BIBLIOGRAPHY
A newly updated bibliography of published Syrian research in nuclear
science and technology shows that country's limited but persistent
activity in various aspects . . .
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September 26, 2007 04:42 PM EDT --
IN PRINT: ENEMIES OF INTELLIGENCE
In his new book "Enemies of Intelligence," Columbia University
political scientist Richard K. Betts warns that ambitious attempts to
correct failures in U.S. . . .
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September 26, 2007 04:40 PM EDT --
STATE DEPT CLASSIFIES REPORT ON IRAQI CORRUPTION
After a congressional committee requested a copy of an unclassified
internal State Department report on corruption in the Iraqi government,
the Department . . .
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