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To rectify the widespread overclassification of government documents, policymakers might consider charging agencies for each decision to classify information.
Congress was right to legislate in response to Project Raven, but its solution limiting the jobs that intelligence community members can take after leaving the government is overbroad. With luck, the intelligence agencies will issue clarifying regulations.
The new signals intelligence executive order is a positive response to prior privacy disagreements with the U.S. and European Union. European advocates would be wise to embrace it.
A brief summary of the Executive Order on Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released its annual transparency report. The annual report compiles statistics and information on the intelligence community's use of legal authorities including the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. You can read the report here and below.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has released its “Annual Statistical Transparency Report Regarding the Intelligence Community’s Use of National Security Surveillance Authorities” for the 2020 calendar year.
Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines released the U.S. intelligence community’s unclassified 2021 Annual Threat Assessment today.
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) released a public report about Executive Order 12333, an executive order that establishes the general framework for intelligence activities and for the organization of the various components that constitute the U.S. Intelligence Community. The 26-page report marks the culmination of six years of PCLOB research about how the government has made use of Executive Order 12333. The report can be found here or below.
Sharing classified information with nonfederal actors has benefits that extend well beyond protecting elections and improving cybersecurity.
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has released a partially-redacted summary of its “China Deep Dive” report on the U.S. intelligence community’s capabilities and competencies regarding the People’s Republic of China.