Last week, in response to a request from Secrecy News for a copy of a thirty year old history of computer development at Los Alamos in the 1940s and 1950s,…
All intelligence and other sensitive information at the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover Building is properly safeguarded, the FBI says. A June 23 Senate Appropriations Committee report, cited by Secrecy News…
“The history of the Intelligence Community is replete with instances of abuse of civil liberties,” observed Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper last year in the course of his confirmation as…
Note: This story was updated in Intelligence is Secure at Hoover Building, FBI Says. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, which is part of the U.S. intelligence community, has the lead…
A federal appeals panel found that the designation of a Chinese detainee held in U.S. custody as an “enemy combatant” was “not valid” (pdf) because the classified evidence offered by…