Ethics in Intelligence, and More from CRS July 12, 2018
What is the role of ethics in intelligence and at the CIA in particular? “Some former employees and others with experience at the agency have been critical of CIA’s ethics…
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Hundreds of CIA Email Accounts Deemed Permanent Records May 3, 2018
In a significant expansion of intelligence record preservation, email from more than 426 Central Intelligence Agency email accounts will now be captured as permanent historical records. A…
Read moreCourt Rules in Favor of Selective Disclosure April 30, 2018
The Central Intelligence Agency can selectively disclose classified information to reporters while withholding that very same information from a requester under the Freedom of Information Act, a federal court ruled…
Read moreCIA Defends Selective Disclosure to Reporters February 15, 2018
The Central Intelligence Agency said yesterday that it has the right to disclose classified information to selected journalists and then to withhold the same information…
Read moreCIA Asserts State Secrets Privilege in Torture Case March 9, 2017
The Central Intelligence Agency formally asserted the state secrets privilege this week in order to prevent disclosure of seven categories of information concerning its post-9/11 interrogation program,…
Read moreFOIA Exemption for CIA “Operational Files” at Issue November 7, 2016
Last March, the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Central Intelligence Agency seeking a copy of “all pornographic material”…
Read moreCIA Releases Draft History of Bay of Pigs November 1, 2016
The Central Intelligence Agency yesterday released a long-sought draft of the fifth volume of its internal history of the 1961 invasion of the Bay of Pigs. The…
Read moreCIA Will Place Its CREST Database Online October 27, 2016
The Central Intelligence Agency said this week that it will post its database of declassified CIA documents online, making them broadly accessible to all interested users. The database, known as…
Read moreCIA Poke at DoD Intelligence Was Not “Substantiated” October 5, 2016
In a dispute that pitted member agencies of the U.S. intelligence community against each other, the Central Intelligence Agency claimed that “a questionable intelligence activity” had been carried out in…
Read moreFour Cold War Covert Actions to be Disclosed May 31, 2016
The Central Intelligence Agency said that it will disclose four previously unacknowledged Cold War covert actions. The four have not yet been publicly identified, but they will be addressed in…
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