1 November 1999

Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 10:03:25 -0500
To: saftergood@igc.org
From: Steven Aftergood <saftergood@igc.org>
Subject: new Moynihan bill on declassification

The text of the proposed "Public Interest Declassification Act," introduced in the Senate on October 27 by Senator Moynihan, is posted at

http://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/s1801.html

The House bill, introduced by Rep. Porter Goss and essentially identical, is posted at

http://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/hr3152.html

Senator Moynihan's introductory remarks are posted at

http://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/pidastat.html

Finally, the bill is described (by the undersigned) as "woefully misconceived" in an article in today's Washington Post online at

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/loeb/loeb.htm

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Steven Aftergood
Project on Government Secrecy
Federation of American Scientists
http://www.fas.org/sgp/