Policy Response to Intelligence Revelations Lags September 11, 2013
The end of the government’s fiscal year 2013 is just weeks away, but an intelligence authorization bill for fiscal year 2014 is nowhere in sight. In past years, the House…
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US Cyber Offense is “The Best in the World” August 26, 2013
The subject of offensive cyber action by the U.S. government was classified for many years and was hardly discussed in public at all. Then several years ago the possibility of…
Read moreIG Says Homeland Security Secrecy Program is in Good Shape August 26, 2013
The Department of Homeland Security “is streamlining classification guidance and more clearly identifying categories of what can be released and what needs to remain classified,” according to a new…
Read moreLeaks Inspire GAO Review of “Classification Inflation” August 12, 2013
“The recent disclosure of classified information regarding U.S. national security programs requires a thorough assessment of the current classification system,” wrote Rep. Duncan Hunter in a letter to the Government…
Read moreMarine Corps Commandant Accused of Improper Classification July 30, 2013
Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos exercised “unlawful command influence” in an attempt to punish Marines who allegedly urinated on enemy corpses in Afghanistan in 2011, attorneys for the Marine…
Read moreDid Justice Roberts Reshape the FISA Court? July 29, 2013
There have been 71 federal judges who have served on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court or the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review from 1979 until the present. A complete…
Read moreFractured Consensus Seen in House Vote on Surveillance July 25, 2013
An amendment to prohibit intelligence agencies from performing bulk collection of records such as telephone metadata was narrowly defeated in the House of Representatives yesterday by a vote of…
Read moreInsider Threat Policy Equates Leakers, Spies, Terrorists July 16, 2013
A national policy on “insider threats” was developed by the Obama Administration in order to protect against actions by government employees who would harm the security of the nation. But…
Read moreLoose Ends July 16, 2013
In response to an October 2012 presidential directive on “protecting whistleblowers with access to classified information,” the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy have produced…
Read moreInspector General Classification Reviews Due in September July 8, 2013
The inspector general of each executive branch agency that classifies national security information is required to produce an evaluation of the agency’s classification program by the end of September, pursuant…
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