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Steven Aftergood: USG Information Sharing Update

Information Sharing Still a Work in Progress August 12th, 2011 by Steven Aftergood While information sharing among government agencies has increased dramatically over the past decade, it still falls short in some areas. Due to “impediments to intelligence information sharing between U.S. forces and coalition partners,” information sharing with U.S. allies in Afghanistan has faltered …

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Steven Aftergood: When Secrecy Gets Out of Hand

“WHEN SECRECY GETS OUT OF HAND“ The government’s relentless pursuit of people suspected of mishandling or leaking classified information underscores the need to combat the misuse of classification authority, wrote J. William Leonard, the former director of the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO), in an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times today. “The Obama administration, …

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Stephen Aftergood: Pentagon Dismisses Presidential Promises of Open Government, Mounts Major Campaign to Control UN-Classified Information

PENTAGON TIGHTENS GRIP ON UNCLASSIFIED INFORMATION In 2005, the U.S. Army issued a new field manual on the military use of dogs, which it said were being “employed in dynamic ways never before imagined.”  The field manual was approved for public release and marked for unlimited distribution.  See FM 3-19.17, “Military Working Dogs” (pdf), 6 …

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Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Steven Aftergood

Steven Aftergood is a senior research analyst at the Federation of American Scientists. He directs the FAS Project on Government Secrecy, which works to reduce the scope of government secrecy and to promote reform of official secrecy practices. He writes Secrecy News, an email newsletter (and blog) which reports on new developments in secrecy policy …

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