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Information Operations Roadmap
I came across a recently declassified document from October, 2003 called Information Operations Roadmap authored by Donald Rumsfeld from Bryan Alexander's blog. The document is attached. Continue reading
Declassified Government Documents in name only
Starting in the new year, hundreds of millions of pages of classified government documents were automatically declassified (see FGI's previous post for background). You might assume that you should able to access these documents in the National Archives, but think again. Declassification is different from "release" so certain documents will remain classified and some documents will be withheld. This is the result of President Bush's Executive Order on Declassification (Exec order 13292) which has nine grounds for exemptions and various restrictions on the release of declassified documents. Source: Alternet Continue reading
U.S. to Declassify Secrets at Age 25
I'm travelling for a few weeks so haven't been in touch much. However, I got a chance today to glance at the NYT and was greeted with this very favorable item by Scott Shane (NY Times 12/21/06). An executive order passed by the Clinton administration calls for documents to be automatically declassified after 25 years. The law reversed the traditional practice of releasing just what scholars requested via FOIA requests. "Several hundred million pages will be declassified at midnight on Dec. 31, including 270 million pages at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which has lagged behind most agencies in reviews." This is really great news for historians and advocates of open government. I hope someone from the CA Digital Library's Web at risk project -- or others who are harvesting web sites and documents -- is reading this and will set their harvesting tools to scoop this boon up!
At midnight on Dec. 31, hundreds of millions of pages of secret documents will be instantly declassified, including many F.B.I. cold war files on investigations of people suspected of being Communist sympathizers. After years of extensions sought by federal agencies behaving like college students facing a term paper, the end of 2006 means the government’s first automatic declassification of records. Secret documents 25 years old or older will lose their classified status without so much as the stroke of a pen, unless agencies have sought exemptions on the ground that the material remains secret.Continue reading
Veto Battle 30 Years Ago Set Freedom of Information Norms
According to declassified documents posted today by the National Security Archive, Scalia, Rumsfeld, Cheney Opposed Open Government Bill 30 years ago. Veto Battle 30 Years Ago Set Freedom of Information Norms Edited by Dan Lopez, Thomas Blanton, Meredith Fuchs and Barbara Elias. Continue reading
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