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NY Times Story Leads to Shutdown of Iraqi Document Site

The U.S. Government suspended public access to an online database of captured Iraqi documents after the New York Times presented claims from some nuclear experts that the documents included sensitive…

11.03.06 | 3 min read
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Classified Budgets and Congressional Corruption

Rep. Jim Gibbons (R-Nevada) helped to direct millions of dollars of classified contracts to one of his major campaign contributors, according to an astonishing account in the Wall Street Journal….

11.03.06 | 1 min read
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An Updated Lexicon of Government Information Policy

The specialized language of government information policy is itself a reflection of the intricacies and convolutions of that policy. A newly updated and substantially expanded lexicon (pdf) of information-related terms,…

10.31.06 | 1 min read
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Something Wiki This Way Comes

The Office of Director of National Intelligence is holding a media roundtable today (pdf) to introduce “Intellipedia,” described as a Wikipedia for the Intelligence Community. The event follows on a…

10.31.06 | 1 min read
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GAO on Security Clearances, NRC on Safeguards Info

Processing of applications for security clearances by the Department of Defense continues to fall far behind official targets for improvement, according to the Government Accountability Office. “Our independent analysis of…

10.31.06 | 1 min read
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