New reports from the Congressional Research Service that Congress has not made publicly available include the following. Lean Finely Textured Beef: The “Pink Slime” Controversy, April 6, 2012 Government Procurement in Times of Fiscal Uncertainty, April 9, 2012 An Analysis of STEM Education Funding at the NSF: Trends and Policy Discussion, April 9, 2012 Federal […]
It is possible to imagine all kinds of changes in government secrecy policy that would make the secrecy system smaller, more efficient, more susceptible to error correction, and more attuned to shifting security requirements. Such changes might include, for example, self-cancelling classification markings, numerical limits on classification activity, broadly distributed oversight and declassification authority, new […]
New and newly updated reports from the Congressional Research Service that have not been made readily available to the public include these. U.S. Oil Imports and Exports, April 4, 2012 Navy Irregular Warfare and Counterterrorism Operations: Background and Issues for Congress, April 6, 2012 Navy Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Program: Background, Issues and Options for […]
Former CIA officer John C. Kiriakou was indicted yesterday on charges of leaking classified information to the press in violation of the Espionage Act and the Intelligence Identities Protection Act. He had been charged on January 23 but the indictment was not filed and unsealed until yesterday. Kiriakou is accused of violating the Intelligence Identities […]
Dale R. Corson, a nuclear physicist who died last week, is best remembered as the Cornell University President who peacefully led his campus through the turmoil and upheaval of the Vietnam era. But he also played an influential role in deliberations over the role of secrecy in scientific research. Dr. Corson chaired a 1982 committee […]
New or newly updated reports from the Congressional Research Service that have not been made readily available to the public include the following. The U.S. Infant Mortality Rate: International Comparisons, Underlying Factors, and Federal Programs, April 4, 2012 The Peace Corps: Current Issues, April 4, 2012 Women in Combat: Issues for Congress, April 5, 2012 […]
Newly updated reports from the Congressional Research Service that have not been made readily available to the public include the following. Navy Virginia (SSN-774) Class Attack Submarine Procurement: Background and Issues for Congress, April 2, 2012 China and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missiles: Policy Issues, March 30, 2012 Fannie Mae’s and Freddie […]
The growing emphasis on Asia as a focus of U.S. national security planning, known as the “pivot to the Pacific,” is discussed in a new report from the Congressional Research Service. “Underlying the ‘pivot’ is a conviction that the center of gravity for U.S. foreign policy, national security, and economic interests is being realigned and […]
Certain types of life science research involving “high consequence pathogens and toxins” would be subject to new review and risk mitigation procedures which might include classification of the research or termination of the funding, according to a U.S. government policy issued yesterday by the National Institutes of Health. The policy applies to research involving 15 […]
The factors that could influence an Israeli decision to attack Iranian nuclear targets and the implications of such an act were assessed in a new report from the Congressional Research Service. The report surveys the multiple dimensions of the issue at length, though it does not appear to provide much new information or original analysis. See Israel: Possible […]
Constitutional government in the United States is alive and well. At least, that is the hopeful conclusion of Jack Goldsmith’s stimulating new book “Power and Constraint.” Goldsmith, a former head of the Bush Administration’s Office of Legal Counsel, disputes the widely accepted view that traditional checks and balances have been diminished by the war on […]
The latest issue of the Army’s Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin is devoted to the Human Terrain System (HTS), which is a U.S. Army program to conduct social and cultural studies in support of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Bulletin provides theoretical and practical accounts from HTS personnel in the field. Thus, HTS analyst […]