Monday, May 22, 2006

BushCo hired by us, but won't say what they're doing!

From Secrecy News:

SOME OTHER SECRECY NEWS

Pressure to adopt "sensitive but unclassified" control markings on information that does not qualify for classification is growing, along with opposition to such controls, among some academic researchers who study terrorism-related topics.

See "Scientific Openness: Should Academics Self-Censor TheirFindings on Terrorism?" by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, Science, May 19: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/312/5776/993b

"The secrecy that has become such a hallmark of the Bush administration did not begin with Sept. 11, as the White House often suggests. It began in the earliest days of January 2001, as the administration was taking shape," according to a National Public Radio account.

See "From the Start, Bush White House Kept Secrets" by Don Gonyea, NPR Weekend Edition, May 21: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5420680

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