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24 July 1999
Declassification, Etc.
22 July 1999
The Senate adopted two amendments on declassification offered by Sen. Daniel
P. Moynihan during consideration of the intelligence authorization bill for
FY 2000 on Wednesday, July 21. The first, pitifully modest in scope, is a
non-binding resolution which affirms that "It is the sense of Congress that
the systematic declassification of records of permanent historic value is
in the public interest and that the management of classification and
declassification by Executive Branch agencies requires comprehensive reform
and additional resources." The second amendment would authorize
an additional $1.5 million for the Information Security Oversight Office
(ISOO), which oversees the operation of the classification system. The Senate
"debate" on these amendments is posted at
http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/1999/07/moynihan.html
Senator Robert Kerrey took to the Senate floor on July 19 for an extended
commentary on secrecy in general and the classification of the intelligence
budget in particular. "My own view is that the failure under law to
let the public know what our [intelligence] expenditures are, and how those
moneys are spent, decreases our security because, unless I am mistaken in
just sensing citizens' attitudes toward our intelligence agencies, they do
not have a sufficient amount of confidence that they are getting their money's
worth." His remarks are posted at
http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/1999/07/kerrey.html
In a front-page story in today's New York Times (July 22), Tim Weiner writes:
"Congress says in a new report that the Pentagon defied the law and the
Constitution by spending hundreds of millions of dollars on
military projects that lawmakers never approved, including a super-secret
Air Force program." The relevant excerpt from that House Appropriations
Committee report, citing "numerous" and "blatant" abuses by the Pentagon,
is posted at
http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/1999/07/hac2000.html
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Steven Aftergood
Project on Government Secrecy
Federation of American Scientists
http://www.fas.org/sgp/