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November 2015

• How Corporate America keeps huge hacks secret by Jose Pagliery, CNN Money, November 30. "The backbone of America -- banks, oil and gas suppliers, the energy grid -- is under constant attack by hackers. But the biggest cyberattacks, the ones that can blow up chemical tanks and burst dams, are kept secret by a law that shields U.S. corporations."
• Privacy groups fight to expose secret cyber ruling by Cory Bennett and Julian Hattem, The Hill, November 21. "For years, the Obama administration has repeatedly declined to reveal a 2003 decision from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), claiming that it no longer relies on the opinion."
• After Paris Attacks, CIA Head Reignites Surveillance Debate by Sarah Childress, Frontline, November 16. "Just three days after the bloody attack in Paris, America's top intelligence official took to a podium and suggested that recent leaks about classified surveillance programs were partially responsible."
• Classified Report on the C.I.A.'s Secret Prisons Is Caught in Limbo by Mark Mazzetti and Matt Apuzzo, New York Times, November 9. "Nearly a year after the Senate released a declassified 500-page summary of the report, the fate of the entire document remains in limbo, the subject of battles in the courts and in Congress. Until those disputes are resolved, the Justice Department has prohibited officials from the government agencies that possess it from even opening the report."
• Key Clinton emails did not contain highly classified secrets, inquiry finds by Josh Gerstein, Politico, November 6. "The U.S. intelligence community has retreated from claims that two emails in Hillary Clinton's private account contained top secret information."
• Latest Obama Transparency Plan Seeks Improved Email Recordkeeping by Charles S. Clark, Government Executive, November 4. "Perhaps the trickiest changes come from the intelligence community's portion released the same day, which represents what could be the toughest adjustment for a set of agencies accustomed to secrecy."
• Government Transparency? Most Federal Advisory Committee Meetings Now Held In Secret: Report by David Sirota, International Business Times, November 3. "The analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service finds that last year, almost three quarters of all advisory committee meetings were closed to the public."

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