OFFICIAL RESOURCES
The Supreme Court's decision early last month to send a Freedom of
Information Act case back to a lower court (Department of
Justice v. City of Chicago) was assessed by the Justice
Department Office of Information and Privacy in "Supreme Court
Vacates and Remands in ATF Database Case," March 25 here:
http://www.usdoj.gov/oip/foiapost/2003foiapost11.htm
Presidential directives as an instrument of national
policy were
discussed by information policy expert Harold C. Relyea of the
Congressional Research Service in "Presidential Directives:
Background and Overview," updated February 10:
http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/98-611.pdf
The CIA's Historical Review Panel presented
recommendations to the
Director of Central Intelligence concerning "the Agency's
position that budget figures from the early years of the CIA
must remain classified," the Panel's latest report notes.
Though the report does not explicitly say so, the Panel
obviously told the DCI to modify this anachronistic position, a
move that may have legal significance as budget secrecy is
litigated. See the latest Panel report here:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/advisory/ciahrp7.html
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