Comments on: Interim IG Report on Surveillance Program Released http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2009/03/ig_report.html Secrecy News from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:45:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: David C. Manchester http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2009/03/ig_report.html/comment-page-1#comment-3192 David C. Manchester Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:45:51 +0000 http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/?p=2416#comment-3192 I put together a collection of widely scattered .pdf's on this subject from December 2005 through Summer 2006, and converted them to .html files with links to citations. The collection includes Congressional Testimony, Position Papers, Issues Briefings, News articles, and CRS Reports. There are many links to cited Supreme Court Decisions as well. The collection is downloadable, and only uses relative (i.e. filename only) links, so it is not necessary to be online to use it. You can browse and download the collection here: http://thewall.civiblog.org/rsf/nsa.html I hope You find this useful. - dcm I put together a collection of widely scattered .pdf’s on this subject from December 2005 through Summer 2006, and converted them to .html files with links to citations. The collection includes Congressional Testimony, Position Papers, Issues Briefings, News articles, and CRS Reports. There are many links to cited Supreme Court Decisions as well.

The collection is downloadable, and only uses relative (i.e. filename only) links, so it is not necessary to be online to use it.

You can browse and download the collection here:

http://thewall.civiblog.org/rsf/nsa.html

I hope You find this useful.

– dcm

]]> By: Steven Aftergood http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2009/03/ig_report.html/comment-page-1#comment-3183 Steven Aftergood Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:01:41 +0000 http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/?p=2416#comment-3183 Not everybody can or should report on everything. (For that reason, among others, readers should not rely on a single news source.) News organizations will undoubtedly cover the final Inspector General report this coming summer. If you haven't noticed, most news outlets are in distress from shrinking revenues and subscriber bases. So far, there is no "new Obama administration standard for classification." A policy change was announced in March to promote greater discretionary disclosure in response to Freedom of Information Act requests -- but it does not mean that classified information will be released. Nor have the standards for classification been modified. That is yet to come. Not everybody can or should report on everything. (For that reason, among others, readers should not rely on a single news source.) News organizations will undoubtedly cover the final Inspector General report this coming summer. If you haven’t noticed, most news outlets are in distress from shrinking revenues and subscriber bases.

So far, there is no “new Obama administration standard for classification.” A policy change was announced in March to promote greater discretionary disclosure in response to Freedom of Information Act requests — but it does not mean that classified information will be released. Nor have the standards for classification been modified. That is yet to come.

]]> By: kfgroves http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2009/03/ig_report.html/comment-page-1#comment-3172 kfgroves Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:25:12 +0000 http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/?p=2416#comment-3172 Given the due date for the final report, would you expect the new Obama administration standard for classification to apply to that? Reading this unclassfied version of the interim report is like trying to decipher a map written with a pencil on rice paper in a rainstorm. Given the due date for the final report, would you expect the new Obama administration standard for classification to apply to that? Reading this unclassfied version of the interim report is like trying to decipher a map written with a pencil on rice paper in a rainstorm.

]]> By: kfgroves http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2009/03/ig_report.html/comment-page-1#comment-3171 kfgroves Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:21:23 +0000 http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/?p=2416#comment-3171 And yours was the only organization who asked for this? I'm not being critical - of you, in any way. But what the hell have all those professional reporters on staff with "news organizations" been up to, anyway? And yours was the only organization who asked for this? I’m not being critical – of you, in any way.

But what the hell have all those professional reporters on staff with “news organizations” been up to, anyway?

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