From the House Oversight Committee:
The White House is withholding hundreds of pages of documents about the activities of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff on the grounds that these documents involve internal White House deliberations. Unless the President is prepared to assert executive privilege over these documents, they should be tumed over to the Oversight Committee without [...]
Archive of entries posted on November 2007
Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman White House Withholds Hundreds of Abramoff Documents
Fair Use Advocates Issue Principles for Protecting Online Videos
From the Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Online video-hosting services like YouTube have ushered in a new era of free expression online, as well as vigorous copyright enforcement efforts. Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of leading public interest groups issued a “Fair Use Principles” document that sets out six concrete guidelines designed to minimize [...]
Secrecy Threatens Historical Record, State Dept is Told
From Secrecy News:
Broad classification restrictions on the disclosure of historical intelligence information are making it difficult or impossible to accurately represent the record of U.S. foreign policy, an official advisory committee warned in a report (pdf) to the Secretary of State last summer.
By law, the Department of State is obliged to publish “a thorough, accurate [...]
DNI Discourages Declassification of Intel Estimates
From Secrecy News:
Although summary accounts of several National Intelligence Estimates have recently been declassified and published, this should not become standard practice, the Director of National Intelligence declared last week.
“It is the policy of the Director of National Intelligence that KJs [the Key Judgments from National Intelligence Estimates] should not be declassified,” DNI J. Michael [...]