Kategorie: SECRECY NEWS
Secret – US Army Intelligence Support to Urban Operations
Become a Patron!True Information is the most valuable resource and we ask you to give back. Free Download Link Below USArmy-UrbanIntelSupport For more on the following training circular, see Steven Aftergood’s post on Secrecy News. TC 2-91.4 Intelligence Support to Urban Operations Page Count: 110 pages Date: December 2015 Restriction: None Originating Organization:…
SECRET – U.S. Army Cyber Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA) Manual
The following manual was released by the U.S. Army on February 12, 2014. The manual was first reported by Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists. FM 3-38 Cyber Electromagnetic Activities 96 pages February 12, 2014 FM 3-38, Cyber Electromagnetic Activities, provides overarching doctrinal guidance and direction for conducting cyber electromagnetic activities (CEMA). This…
SECRECY NEWS – SUBPOENA OF AP PHONE RECORDS SAID TO DAMAGE PRESS FREEDOM
The government seizure of Associated Press telephone records in the course of a leak investigation undermined freedom of the press in the United States, congressional critics said yesterday. “It seems to me the damage done to a free press is substantial,” said Rep. Zoe Lofgren at a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee. Pursuant to…
SECRECY NEWS – SENATE CONFIRMS CHAIR OF PRIVACY & CIVIL LIBERTIES BOARD
Almost a year and a half after he was nominated by President Obama in December 2011, the Senate yesterday confirmed David Medine to be the chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board by a vote of 53-45. http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2013_cr/medine.html Republicans, led by Sen. Charles Grassley, opposed the nominee and voted against him. “I was…
SECRECY NEWS – FISA SURVEILLANCE APPLICATIONS ROSE SLIGHTLY IN 2012
“During calendar year 2012, the Government made 1,856 applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for authority to conduct electronic surveillance and/or physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes.” That somewhat opaque statistic was disclosed in the Justice Department’s latest annual report to Congress on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, filed on Tuesday. As is usually…
SECRECY NEWS – SEQUESTRATION SLOWS DOCUMENT DECLASSIFICATION
The process of declassifying national security records, which is hardly expeditious under the best of circumstances, will become slower as a result of the mandatory budget cuts known as sequestration. Due to sequestration, “NARA has reduced funding dedicated to the declassification of Presidential records,” the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) said in a report…
SECRECY NEWS – FBI TERRORISM INVESTIGATIONS, AND MORE FROM CRS
“Intelligence activity in the past decades has, all too often, exceeded the restraints on the exercise of governmental power that are imposed by our country’s Constitution, laws, and traditions,” according to the Congressional Research Service. The CRS, which shuns polemical claims, presents that assertion as a simple statement of fact (although cautiously sourced to the…
SECRECY NEWS – GROUPS URGE WHITE HOUSE TO TAKE LEAD IN REDUCING SECRECY
The White House should undertake a focused effort to reduce national security secrecy, some 30 public interest organizations urged President Obama in a letter today. Klicke, um auf steering.pdf zuzugreifen The groups called upon the President to adopt a recommendation of the Public Interest Declassification Board to set up a White House-led Security Classification…
SECRECY NEWS – INTELLIGENCE SATELLITE IMAGERY DECLASSIFIED FOR RELEASE
An enormous volume of photographic imagery from the KH-9 HEXAGON intelligence satellites was quietly declassified in January and will be transferred to the National Archives later this year for subsequent public release. The KH-9 satellites operated between 1971 and 1984. The imagery they generated should be of historical interest with respect to a wide range…
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