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Newer News: February 2021

January 2021

• Secrecy in U.S. National Security: Why a Paradigm Shift Is Needed by Steven Aftergood, Secrecy and Society, vol. 2, no. 2, January. "Like nearly every critic and commission concerned with secrecy policy, the current study broadly condemns 'overclassification.' But doing so does not advance the discussion because of the simple fact that there is no one who is in favor of overclassification!"
• Continuation of the National Emergency on the Southern Border, communication from the President, January 15. "The ongoing border security and humanitarian crisis at the southern border of the United States continues to threaten our national security, including by exacerbating the effect of the pandemic caused by COVID-19."
• USA v. John R. Bolton: Memorandum Opinion, January 14. Court grants discovery regarding whether officials demonstrated bad faith in delaying prepublication review.
• When it comes to security clearances, rules for others don't apply to Congress by John M. Donnelly, Roll Call, January 12. "In the wake of the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol, some are asking whether certain members of Congress, including the Republican leaders of the defense and intelligence committees, would meet even the minimum standards for a government official to hold a security clearance."
• Loeffler's Husband Entangled in Secret Gov't Surveillance Operation by William Bredderman, The Daily Beast, January 5. "The feds are renting an airport hangar from him for planes linked to a U.S. Marshals Service domestic spying program."
• U.S. Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific, White House, February 2018, declassified January 5, 2021. "How to maintain U. S. strategic primacy in the Indo-Pacific region and promote a liberal economic order while preventing China from establishing new, illiberal spheres of influence, and cultivating areas of cooperation to promote regional peace and prosperity?"
• Statement of National Security Advisor on Declassification of Indo-Pacific Strategic Framework, White House, January 5. "The declassification of the Framework today demonstrates, with transparency, America's strategic commitments to the Indo-Pacific and to our allies and partners in the region."

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