'Fugitives' Category
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Senator Levin releases report on pre-war intelligence
October 22, 2004Senator Carl Levin Releases Report on Pre-War Intelligence Levin’s report (in PDF) is a page turner. It “focuses on 1) the establishment of a non-Intelligence Community source of intelligence analysis in the office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, and 2) the extent to which policy makers utilized that alternative source [...]
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NSA sues CIA to get key Iraq doc
October 21, 2004Archive Sues CIA for Speedy Review of Key Iraq Document The National Security Archive today filed suit against the Central Intelligence Agency (“CIA”) seeking the expedited processing and release under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) of the 2004 Iraq National Intelligence Estimate (“NIE). As the New York Times reported on September 16, 2004, the [...]
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P2P for democracy
July 20, 2004Wired News: Downloading for Democracy What a great idea. We can all be proactive about collecting government information. Outragedmoderates.org, launched two weeks ago, has aggregated more than 600 government and court documents to make them available for download through the Kazaa, LimeWire and Soulseek P2P networks in the interest of making government more transparent and [...]
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When silence is insidious
July 6, 2004Ashcroft Attempting to Silence Former FBI Translator In a rare maneuver, Attorney General John Ashcroft has ordered that information about the Edmonds case be retroactively classified, even basic facts that have been posted on websites and discussed openly in meetings with members of Congress for two years. The Department of Justice also invoked the seldom-used [...]