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The number of people who are cleared for access to classified information continued to rise in 2012 to more than 4.9 million, according to a new annual report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. This is only the third official tally of government-wide security cl...
Intelligence Budget Requests for 2014 Disclosed April 11th, 2013 by Steven Aftergood Some $4 billion is being cut from the National Intelligence Program this year as a result of sequestration, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told the House Intelligence Committee at a h...
Pentagon Manual Urges Precision in Classifying Information April 8th, 2013 by Steven Aftergood The Department of Defense is not particularly concerned with “openness” in the abstract, but it is strongly motivated to conserve resources and reduce discretionary expenditures. That impera...
Prosecutors Rebut Defendant’s Challenge to Espionage Act Statute April 8th, 2013 by Steven Aftergood Last month , attorneys for Navy linguist James Hitselberger, who was charged under the Espionage Act with unlawful retention of classified documents, filed a motion arguing that the Es...
North Korean Nukes, Domestic Drones, and More from CRS April 5th, 2013 by Steven Aftergood An updated summary of open source reporting on the North Korean nuclear weapons program was produced this week by the Congressional Research Service. See North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons: Technical...
Defense Doctrine Offers Insight into Military Operations April 2nd, 2013 by Steven Aftergood “Reconnaissance assets, like artillery assets, are never kept in reserve,” according to U.S. Army doctrine. In other words, whatever means you may have to gather information about the activiti...
Senate Republicans Lead Congressional Use of Twitter, CRS Says April 2nd, 2013 by Steven Aftergood Senate Republicans are the most prolific users of Twitter in Congress, tweeting an average of 1.53 Tweets per day, according to a new report from the Congressional Research Service. They...
“I. History and Operation of the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program. This volume is divided chronologically into sections addressing the establishment, development, and evolution of the CIA detention and interrogation program.” “II. Intelligence Acquired and CIA Representations...
DoD Inspector General Has Unrestricted Access to Classified Info March 25th, 2013 by Steven Aftergood A Department of Defense instruction issued on Friday reinforces the policy that the DoD Office of Inspector General (OIG) is to have full access to all records, including classified r...
NASA Technical Reports Database Goes Dark March 21st, 2013 by Steven Aftergood This week NASA abruptly took the massive NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) offline. Though no explanation for the removal was offered, it appeared to be in response to concerns that export controlled inf...
Over the past thirty years, dozens of indiscriminate mass shootings in America have resulted in 547 deaths and an additional 476 injured victims, according to a new tabulation by the Congressional Research Service. The new CRS report examines the phenomenon of mass shootings, like the...
In the 2011 study, the authors focused on what would be the main concern of cautious Russian military planners —the capability of the missile defense interceptors to simply reach, or “engage,” Russian strategic warheads—rather than whether any particular engagement results in an actua...
Classification Complaint Arising from Thomas Drake Case Dismissed March 19th, 2013 by Steven Aftergood In July 2011, J. William Leonard, a former director of the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO), took the extraordinary step of filing a formal complaint with the Office he o...
Taxes on Gun Sales to Support Wildlife, and More from CRS March 18th, 2013 by Steven Aftergood In the wake of recent gun-related violence, and in anticipation of potential new restrictions on gun ownership, there has been a sharp increase in sales of guns and ammunition. That is bad n...
The U.S. Navy has quietly removed the nuclear Tomahawk cruise missile from its inventory, a new Secretary of the Navy Instruction shows. By Hans M. Kristensen Although the U.S. Navy has yet to make a formal announcement that the nuclear Tomahawk land-attack cruise missile (TLAM/N) has...
The Office of Personnel Management has invited the public to comment on proposed changes to Standard Form (SF) 86 , the questionnaire that must be filled out by all persons who are seeking a security clearance for access to classified information. Although critics have argued that the...
Leaks: Why the Government Condemns and Condones Them March 14th, 2013 by Steven Aftergood Leaks of classified information and the government’s responses to them are the subject of a new study by David Pozen of Columbia Law School. The starting point for his examination is the “dramati...
Bradley Manning Takes Responsibility March 12th, 2013 by Steven Aftergood At an open hearing on February 28, Pfc. Bradley Manning said that he was responsible for providing U.S. government documents to the WikiLeaks website, including a large collection of U.S. State Department cables...
Feds Add New Espionage Act Charge Against Linguist March 11th, 2013 by Steven Aftergood Last fall, Navy contract linguist James Hitselberger was charged under the Espionage Act with two counts of unlawful retention of national defense information after several classified documents wer...
