[infowar.de] mehr zum Info-Austausch von FBI mit CIA etc.

[Ralf Bendrath <bendrath -! - zedat - fu-berlin - de>]

Infowar.de, http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~bendrath/liste.html
-------------------------------------------------------------

SECRECY NEWS
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2002, Issue No. 92
September 23, 2002


(...)

JUSTICE DEPT INFORMATION SHARING INITIATIVES

"Information sharing" is the order of the day, at least within the
executive branch.

The Justice Department has undertaken dozens of initiatives to
promote interagency cooperation, as well as information sharing with
state and local law enforcement agencies, according to a September
19 fact sheet.

The Justice Department fact sheet, entitled "Overview of Information
Sharing Initiatives in the War on Terrorism," is posted here:

     http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fs091902.html

The Department's recognition of the value of information sharing does
not seem to extend to the general public.  In what may be the most
absurd Freedom of Information Act case now pending in federal court,
the Justice Department is still defending a CIA claim that
declassification of the intelligence budget total from 1947 would
damage U.S. national security and compromise intelligence sources
and methods.  The 1997 budget total was declassified five years ago.

(...)

_______________________________________________
Secrecy News is written by Steven Aftergood and published by the
Federation of American Scientists.

To SUBSCRIBE to Secrecy News, send email to
     secrecy_news-request -!
- lists -
 fas -
 org
with "subscribe" in the body of the message.

To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a blank email message to
     secrecy_news-remove -!
- lists -
 fas -
 org

OR email your request to saftergood -!
- fas -
 org

Secrecy News is archived at:
     http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/secrecy/index.html

_______________________
Steven Aftergood
Project on Government Secrecy
Federation of American Scientists
web:    www.fas.org/sgp/index.html
email:  saftergood -!
- fas -
 org
voice:  (202) 454-4691

---------------------------------------------------------------
Liste verlassen: 
Mail an infowar -
 de-request -!
- infopeace -
 de mit "unsubscribe" im Text.