Feeling the legal heat as his term of office winds down, Bush and his
jolly war criminals cum SECRET NON-SHARERS have dreamed up yet another
category of "classified" document(s) so as not to leave any undetected
crimes to chance.
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"Secret, but Not That Secret"
In The Loop
May 12, 2008, A17
Widely criticized as having a penchant for secrecy, President Bush
issued new regulations Friday for documents that are often treated as
secret, even though they're not.
In a memo to Cabinet members and agency heads, Bush outlined the rules
for a new category of "Controlled Unclassified Information," or CUI,
which will replace a hodgepodge of more than 100 labels that agencies
such as the FBI and the Defense Department attach to documents that
are deemed sensitive but not secret.
There will be three levels of CUI records -- standard, specified and
enhanced -- which roughly compare to four kinds of classified
documents outlined in federal statutes.
Public information advocates said the rules may improve sharing within
the government but probably won't do much to improve outside access to
records.
"I can't immediately see a way that this will make things worse, and
it should improve government efficiency," said Steven Aftergood,
director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of
American Scientists. "If they're doing bad things, they will do bad
things more efficiently."
Thomas S. Blanton, director of the National Security Archive at George
Washington University, said the system "could increase the problem of
pseudo-secrecy, where documents are withheld even though they are not
actually secret."
-- Michael Abramowitz
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/11/AR200...
