Tag: analysis
group name: fas
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March 02, 2007 03:09 PM EST --
WHITE HOUSE "STRONGLY OPPOSES" INTEL BUDGET DISCLOSURE
The Bush Administration formally notified the Senate this week that it objects to a provision in a pending bill on homeland security that . . .
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May 02, 2007 03:00 PM EDT --
ARMY CLAMPS DOWN WITH NEW OPSEC POLICY
A new U.S. Army regulation on Operations Security (OPSEC) would sharply restrict the ability of soldiers to participate in public life without supervision . . .
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March 29, 2007 03:37 PM EDT --
"Global climate change "represents a clear and present danger to the security and economy of the United States," according to a bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate yesterday, and it . . .
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May 07, 2007 03:37 PM EDT --
ARMY DOCUMENTS POSTED "ILLEGALLY," ARMY SAYS
A U.S. Army official told the Federation of American Scientists that Army documents on the FAS web site had been published by FAS "illegally" . . .
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April 11, 2007 03:52 PM EDT --
VISUAL AIRCRAFT RECOGNITION (FOUO)
More than 160 U.S. and foreign military aircraft are catalogued in a U.S. Army manual which describes their distinctive physical characteristics in order to permit visual . . .
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April 24, 2007 03:20 PM EDT --
The Department of Defense has asked Congress to enact two expansive new provisions in the FY 2008 defense authorization act to help it restrict public access to information.
One of the provisions would . . .
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March 07, 2007 02:35 PM EST --
CONGRESSIONAL INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT IN JEOPARDY
In a "shocking and inexcusable" action that may threaten the institution of congressional intelligence oversight, an anonymous Senator yesterday . . .
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June 28, 2007 04:17 PM EDT --
FOCUS OF VP INQUIRY SHIFTS TO ATTORNEY GENERAL
Congressional leaders who are investigating the refusal of Vice President Cheney to comply with executive branch procedures for oversight of classification . . .
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March 15, 2007 04:16 PM EDT --
Two new U.S. Secret Service agents are to be stationed in Moscow this year, in accordance with a secret memorandum of understanding between the Department of Homeland Security and Russia's . . .
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March 22, 2007 02:31 PM EDT --
Beginning in the mid-1950s, the U.S. Army conducted research involving thousands of human subjects on various chemical agents, including LSD, BZ and marijuana derivatives, to assess their utility for chemical . . .
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March 22, 2007 02:32 PM EDT --
In what is being characterized by subordinates as an act of "managerial dementia," the Director of the Congressional Research Service this week prohibited all public distribution of CRS products . . .
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February 20, 2007 12:06 PM EST --
Intelligence analysis "must be objective and independent of political considerations," according to a new "capstone" directive (pdf) issued by the Director of National Intelligence. . . .
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April 03, 2008 12:45 PM EDT --
The Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel memo on interrogation of enemy combatants that was declassified this week "exemplifies the political abuse of classification authority," . . .
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March 05, 2007 01:45 PM EST --
"STATE SECRETS" SHIELD CIA FROM TORTURE ALLEGATIONS
A federal appeals court ruled last week that the overriding need to protect "state secrets" makes it impossible to litigate claims . . .
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February 08, 2007 04:32 PM EST --
The National Reconnaissance Office, the U.S. intelligence agency that builds and operates spy satellites, has released a redacted version of its declassification guide (pdf) for review of historical records . . .
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June 21, 2007 03:28 PM EDT --
The House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing last April on the policy of "extraordinary rendition," referring to the seizure of suspected terrorists and their transfer to a foreign country . . .
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June 05, 2007 03:39 PM EDT --
Letters sent to Judge Reggie B. Walton regarding the sentencing of vice presidential aide Lewis I. "Scooter" Libby, who was convicted of obstruction of justice, were released by the court today. . . .
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March 29, 2007 03:39 PM EDT --
The forthcoming trial of two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee who are charged with mishandling classified information "won't be a closed trial," said Judge . . .
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September 26, 2007 04:50 PM EDT --
SYRIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE BIBLIOGRAPHY
A newly updated bibliography of published Syrian research in nuclear
science and technology shows that country's limited but persistent
activity in various aspects . . .
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April 19, 2007 12:27 PM EDT --
COURT RULES THAT AIPAC TRIAL MUST BE OPEN
A federal court this week rejected a government proposal to restrict public access to evidence in the forthcoming trial of two former officials of the American . . .
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