Tag: legislative branch
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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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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February 28, 2008 08:19 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 . . .
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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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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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September 12, 2007 03:41 PM EDT --
DoJ: NEW SURVEILLANCE LAW COULD BE "MISCONSTRUED"
Critics of the new Protect America Act who wonder if it will be used to conduct warrantless surveillance of Americans have misunderstood the . . .
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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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August 01, 2007 03:37 PM EDT --
The espionage statutes concerning classified information could be
employed against journalists who publish such information without
authorization, a Justice Department official told Congress recently, . . .
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October 09, 2007 01:07 PM EDT --
BILL ON CONTRACTOR LIABILITY RAISES INTEL AGENCY CONCERNS
Last week the House of Representatives passed a bill to extend federal legal jurisdiction to crimes committed abroad by U.S. contractors in war . . .
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July 27, 2007 01:22 PM EDT --
9/11 BILL REQUIRES INTELLIGENCE BUDGET DISCLOSURE
For the first time since it began debating the issue more than three decades ago, Congress is now poised to adopt legislation that will require -- not . . .
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April 15, 2008 09:09 PM EDT --
U.S. intelligence agencies have embarked upon a process to develop a
uniform classification policy and a single classification guide that
could be used by the entire U.S. intelligence community, . . .
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