Tag: bush
member name: Steve A, Federation of American Scientists
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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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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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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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August 08, 2007 10:15 AM EDT --
On August 1, the Pacific island nation of Palau became the 139th
country to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty that would ban all
nuclear explosions.
Among states that possess nuclear weapons, only . . .
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July 23, 2007 04:29 PM EDT --
Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign has put forward an agenda
to increase transparency in government that includes "publishing
budgets for every government agency."
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August 06, 2007 01:34 PM EDT --
A federal court last week accepted a Central Intelligence Agency
argument that the date on which former covert officer Valerie Plame
Wilson's employment at the CIA began should remain classified even . . .
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February 28, 2008 02:13 PM EST --
"The disdain and uncooperative nature that this administration has shown toward Congress... is so egregious that I can no longer assume that it is simply bureaucratic incompetence or isolated mistakes. . . .
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August 06, 2007 01:33 PM EDT --
One day after President Bush signed into law a bill that requires
public disclosure of the national intelligence budget, the House of
Representatives adopted an amendment to prevent that requirement from . . .
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July 25, 2007 12:39 PM EDT --
The U.S. Senate is placing increased emphasis on exposing corruption and profiteering in military contracting in Iraq.
Last week, Sen. James Webb (D-VA) introduced a bill with twenty co-sponsors . . .
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April 15, 2008 09:14 PM EDT --
SENATE MULLS CHANGES IN INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT
The Senate Intelligence Committee has recommended creation of a new
Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Intelligence to prepare the
annual intelligence . . .
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April 16, 2008 11:42 AM EDT --
Some unauthorized disclosures of classified information in the press can serve a constructive purpose, Sen. John McCain allowed. And so he expressed support for a pending press "shield" . . .
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January 03, 2008 01:59 PM EST --
DOJ ATTORNEYS DAMAGED SECRECY OVERSIGHT, FAS COMPLAINT SAYS
Attorneys at the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel violated the executive order on classification and damaged oversight of . . .
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