Comments on: A Secret Session of the House of Representatives http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2008/03/a_secret_session_of_the_house_.html Secrecy News from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:01:12 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Steven Aftergood http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2008/03/a_secret_session_of_the_house_.html/comment-page-1#comment-1173 Steven Aftergood Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:09:57 +0000 http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2008/03/a_secret_session_of_the_house_.html#comment-1173 <p>Good question. There are no provisions for automatic declassification or disclosure of such records, assuming that they still exist. If they are ever to be disclosed, it will require a deliberate act of Congress, ordering their release.</p> <p>For more information, see "Declassification Reviews of Certain Congressional Information" on page 35 of the recent report <a href="http://www.fas.org/sgp/library/pidbreport.pdf" rel="nofollow">"Improving Declassification"</a> (pdf) from the Public Interest Declassification Board.</p> <code> Good question. There are no provisions for automatic declassification or disclosure of such records, assuming that they still exist. If they are ever to be disclosed, it will require a deliberate act of Congress, ordering their release.

For more information, see “Declassification Reviews of Certain Congressional Information” on page 35 of the recent report “Improving Declassification” (pdf) from the Public Interest Declassification Board.

]]> By: jhm http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2008/03/a_secret_session_of_the_house_.html/comment-page-1#comment-1172 jhm Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:53:28 +0000 http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2008/03/a_secret_session_of_the_house_.html#comment-1172 Are there records of secret session which become declassified after a certain time has passes, or other conditions have been met? Are there records of secret session which become declassified after a certain time has passes, or other conditions have been met?

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