If a new information security policy emerges, it’s not likely to come from the Central Intelligence Agency, which still adheres to the coldest of cold war secrecy policies. Due to…
Updated below This week marks one full year since publication of the latest print volume of the Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series, the official documentary record of…
In October, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a riveting hearing with Jack Goldsmith, the former head of the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel. The record of that hearing has…
Noteworthy new reports from the Congressional Research Service obtained by Secrecy News include the following (all pdf). “China’s Space Program: Options for U.S.-China Cooperation,” December 14, 2007. “U.S.-China Military Contacts:…
A federal appeals court last week overturned (pdf) a lower court ruling that the CIA had won in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit involving JFK assassination records, and ordered…