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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: classified information

classified information stories: 11 news summaries

(Newser) - The Pentagon has released 145 new photos of the Air Force One flyover that rattled New Yorkers in April, CNN reports. The flight was for a White House photo shoot, but city officials and the public were not informed. The photos show the Boeing plane, the military version of the... More »

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Pentagon • New York City • US military • classified information • Air Force One • flyover

Obama Orders Review of Government Secrecy

President creates task force to overhaul declassification policy

May 28, 09 1:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama has ordered a sweeping review of the government's secrecy policy, the Washington Post reports. Obama sent a memo to government officials reaffirming his administration's commitment "to operating with an unprecedented level of openness," and directed his national security adviser  to review how classified information is handled... More »

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secrecy • classified information • Federal government • Janet Napolitano • Eric Holder • Obama administration • President Obama

White House Changes Tune on Flyover Photo Release

Photos, official report on 'Scare Force One' low flight over NY may be released soon

May 7, 09 7:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - The White House has switched gears and decided to release a report on, and photos from, the Air Force One low-altitude flyby that spooked New Yorkers, CNN reports. A spokesman said that, contrary to earlier reports, images would be probably be released later this week—along with the findings of... More »

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New York City • New York • White House • classified information • Air Force One • photo op

(Newser) - The White House won’t release pictures from Air Force One’s much-criticized Manhattan flyover, reports the New York Post. “The photos are classified—that’s ridiculous,” said one city council member. But a White House aide says the fruits of the $328,835 photo-op aren’t classified,... More »

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New York • Manhattan • White House • classified information • Air Force One • photo op • flyover

 69 Nuke Lab Computers Missing

Los Alamos probing thefts; Blackberry lost in 'sensitive foreign country'

Feb 12, 09 3:44 AM CST
(Newser) - The nuclear weapons lab at Los Alamos is trying to find 69 missing computers, including three stolen from a scientist's home and a Blackberry lost in "a sensitive foreign country" in the last two months, reports AP. No classified information was on the computers but they contained names and... More »

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nuclear weapons • classified information • computer security • computer • Los Alamos

Is Monroe Sex Tape a Hoax?

FBI finds no evidence
of reel that dealer says
he sold for $1.5M
 

May 2, 08 3:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - FBI officials say their records show no evidence that the agency ever had a Marilyn Monroe sex tape, casting doubt on a memorabilia dealer’s claim that he just sold one, NBC News reports. The dealer says it belonged to the FBI in the 1960s, but he has produced no... More »

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FBI • pornography • Marilyn Monroe • classified information • memorabilia • sex tape

 Secret
 Monroe
 Porn
 Fetches
 $1.5M 

FBI once thought it tied to JFK

Apr 14, 08 9:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - A copy of an FBI-classified Marilyn Monroe sex tape quietly surfaced last month and sold for $1.5 million, reports the New York Post. The 15 minutes of silent footage, which the anonymous New York buyer plans to keep private so as not to make a “Paris Hilton out... More »

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FBI • John F. Kennedy • Marilyn Monroe • classified information • Joe DiMaggio • sex tape • J. Edgar Hoover • Robert F. Kennedy

 Justice Memo Backed 
 Torture Interrogations  

President's wartime powers override law, document argued

Apr 2, 08 3:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - Laws banning torture and assault should not apply to US military interrogators overseas, argues a 2003 Justice Department memo released yesterday. The Defense Department was told not to rely on the memo nine months after it was issued, but it established a legal foundation for controversial interrogations, the Washington Post... More »

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Pentagon • torture • Abu Ghraib • US military • Guantanamo Bay • classified information • interrogation techniques • suspected terrorists • Iraq war • torture memo

 Insignia of Our Secret Armies 

Classified military world comes to light in new book

Apr 1, 08 4:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - The men and women who work in our country’s most classified weapons and intelligence R&D programs—the New York Times calls them "stealthy armies of high-tech warriors"—have developed their own culture, complete with inside humor. That's on display in a new a book by Trevor... More »

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national security • Dick Cheney • Pentagon • US military • September 11 • classified information • classified military programs

US Spies Surf Internet for
Open Secrets

In Information Age, useful intelligence hides in plain sight

Apr 1, 08 12:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Where do America’s spies go to get their most useful information? The Internet, mostly. Intelligence reports are increasingly filled with “open-source intelligence,” or information that’s available to nearly anyone, USA Today reports. The much-publicized December report on Iran’s nuclear program, for example, relied heavily... More »

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national security • CIA • Internet • classified information • spying • spies • intelligence agencies

Judge Scissors Out Parts of Plame Memoir

Court rules ex-agent can't reveal dates
of CIA employment

Aug 3, 07 3:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Valerie Plame won't be allowed to disclose the dates she worked for the CIA in her upcoming memoir because it's classified information, a federal judge ruled today. The outed agent and publisher Simon & Schuster sued to keep the CIA from quashing info in her book, Fair Game: My Life ... More »

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CIA • Valerie Plame • free speech • censorship • Simon and Schuster • memoir • classified information

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