From the Blogs
Declassification of Nuclear Build Rate Sought:
Last week, FAS submitted a petition to the Department of Energy to
declassify the annual rate at which the United States built new nuclear
weapons throughout the Cold War; this information would enrich the
public understanding of the historical development of the U.S.
stockpile. Total annual build rates have previously been declassified
for 1945 to 1961.
"Insider Threat" Program Lags Behind Schedule: The
government-wide effort to contain the threat to classified information
and sensitive facilities from trusted insiders is falling behind
schedule. Currently, the anticipated achievement of an Initial Operating
Capability for insider threat detection by January 2017 is “at risk,”
according to a new quarterly progress report. Meanwhile, the date for
achieving a Full Operating Capability cannot even be projected. One
aspect of the insider threat program is “continuous evaluation” (CE),
which refers to the ongoing review of background information concerning
cleared persons in order to ensure that they remain eligible for access
to classified information and to provide prompt notice of any anomalous
behavior.
IC Inspector General Finds No Overclassification: A
new study of the subject from the Intelligence Community Inspector
General failed to identify a single case of unnecessary or inappropriate
classification. The December 2014 report states that "IC IG found no
instances where classification was used to conceal violation of law,
inefficiency, or administrative error; prevent embarrassment to a
person, organization, or agency; restrain competition; or prevent or
delay the release of information not requiring protection in the
interest of national security." The IC IG report purports to address
classification trends across the intelligence community. And its
conclusions are hard to reconcile with the public record, to say the
least.
DoD Cyber Operations and More from CRS:
Secrecy News has obtained recently released CRS reports on topics such
as U.S. military operations in cyberspace, state sponsors of
international acts of terrorism and China and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and missiles.
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