Title: Secrecy News

Source/Sponsoring Agency: Federation of American Scientists. Project on Government Secrecy

URL: http://fas.org/blog/secrecy/

Date Checked: 4/16/2008      Status: Active

Date Annotated: 4/16/2008

Topics: Civil Rights; Politics; Science And Technology

Other keywords: Information Law; Secrecy; Confidentiality; Government privilege; Intelligence; National security; Blogs

Contents: Secrecy News is the website of the Federation of American Scientists (“FAS”) Project on Government Secrecy. FAS’s mission is to provide the public with timely, non-partisan analyses of global issues which involve science and technology. The Secrecy News website is a subsidiary FAS project, written by Steven Aftergood, a senior research analyst at FAS. The site is a blog, whose entries contain information and updates on government secrecy. There are links to most documents cited in the blog postings. Most of these documents are hosted on FAS website (www.fas.org), but are not created by FAS. They are generally PDFs of publicly available documents, such as legal complaints, government investigation reports, and press releases. The blog may also link to FAS web pages that index publicly available documents on specific topics, such as the State Secrets Privilege. Secrecy News only contains links for blog entries, organized by date of posting; it is not indexed by topic areas or specific issues. Users can run a simple search of the blog through a search box at the top of the page. Secrecy News’ coverage begins in mid-January 2006 and is ongoing. Users can receive security news updates from Secrecy News via email, or sign up for its RSS feed.

Author of Annotation: L. Buechner