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Vice President Makes Secrecy Policy a Joke (Literally)

The arcane details of national security classification policy became the stuff of late night comedy as White House officials struggled to justify the peculiar refusal of Vice President Dick Cheney…

06.26.07 | 3 min read
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Cheney Sought to Abolish Secrecy Oversight Office

The Office of Vice President Dick Cheney proposed to abolish the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO), the executive branch organization that oversees the national security classification system, after its Director…

06.21.07 | 1 min read
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Extraordinary Hearing on Extraordinary Rendition

The House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing last April on the policy of “extraordinary rendition,” referring to the seizure of suspected terrorists and their transfer to a foreign country…

06.21.07 | 1 min read
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NRO Releases Compendium of Declassified Data

The National Reconnaissance Office, the U.S. intelligence agency that builds and operates spy satellites, has released a redacted version of its declassification guide (pdf) for review of historical records that…

06.07.07 | 1 min read
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Constitutional Limitations on Domestic Surveillance

The constitutionality of the so-called Terrorist Surveillance Program was examined from various points of view at a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee today. “The President had ample authority to…

06.07.07 | 1 min read
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