Tag: legislation
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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June 26, 2007 12:18 PM EDT --
VICE PRESIDENT MAKES SECRECY POLICY A JOKE (LITERALLY)
The arcane details of national security classification policy became the stuff of late night comedy as White House officials struggled to . . .
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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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February 09, 2007 11:10 PM EST --
We at the Federation of American Scientists recommend the creation of the Digital Opportunity Investment Trust (DO IT), a nonprofit, nongovernmental agency designed to meet the urgent need to transform . . .
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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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February 22, 2007 04:12 PM EST --
There are a few different things going on. Wait times have become longer; backlogs of requests have grown; the standards under which information is released have in some cases become more restrictive. . . .
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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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June 18, 2007 04:25 PM EDT --
DOD UPDATES POLICY ON CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS
To qualify for conscientious objector status and to be granted military discharge on that basis, an individual must oppose all wars, not just a particular . . .
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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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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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February 13, 2008 04:02 PM EST --
Public access to the Reimer Digital Library , which is the largest online collection of U.S. Army doctrinal publications, has been blocked by the Army, which last week moved the collection behind a password-protected . . .
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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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June 05, 2007 03:42 PM EDT --
ODNI DOCUMENT SUGGESTS A LARGER INTELLIGENCE BUDGET
Classified budget numbers concealed in an unclassified PowerPoint document suggest that total U.S. intelligence spending is significantly larger than . . .
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June 18, 2007 04:31 PM EDT --
SPOTLIGHT ON SPECIAL FORCES AND INTELLIGENCE
The structure of Army special operations forces, their capabilities and characteristic mission profiles, and the role of intelligence in supporting them are . . .
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July 07, 2008 05:02 PM EDT --
By classifying some recent Presidential directives on homeland security and restricting their disclosure, the Bush Administration has impeded their effective implementation, the Senate Appropriations . . .
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June 23, 2007 11:38 PM EDT --
FAS opposes the so-called Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) and asks you to tell your Senator to vote against the funding for this new nuclear bomb. We urge you to visit the FAS petition at . . .
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