20.5M besluiten om Documenten te classificeren

PETE YOST

Er waren 20.5 miljoen besluiten om overheidsgeheimen te classificeren vorig jaar, en een rapport aan de voorzitter vond ernstige tekortkomingen in het proces.

Het Bureau van de Onoplettendheid van de Informatiebeveiliging zei meer dan 1 in 10 documenten het niet gehad een basis voor classificatie herzag, „in vraag stellend de correctheid“ van de besluiten om hen van grenzen aan openbare onthulling te plaatsen.

Het „hoge foutentarief,“ ISOO bovengenoemd in zijn jaarlijks overzicht, kan slechts door een veelzijdige inspanning en een ononderbroken onoplettendheid worden gericht.

The report comes as the office of Vice President Dick Cheney is refusing to cooperate with the office of the National Archives. The report noted that Cheney’s office “did not report data to ISOO this year.”

Executive branch agencies give the ISOO data on how much material they classify and declassify. Cheney’s office provided the information in 2001 and 2002, then stopped.

“The reviews of actual decision making are striking, given the vice president’s refusal to report” to the ISOO, said Meredith Fuchs, general counsel at the National Security Archive, a private group advocating public disclosure of government secrets.

The White House says it’s clear that the president’s executive order on the matter never intended for the vice president’s office to be treated as an agency.

The ISOO said the Pentagon reported a 35 percent decline in its activity to classify documents, and that the amount of classification government-wide declined for the second straight year.

However, the amount of derivative classification activity rose by more than 6 million actions.

Derivative classification is the act of incorporating in a new form information that has already been classified.

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