secrecy news
When President Obama announced his administration would attempt to reform government secrecy, he called it part of an effort to conduct the nation's business with "unprecedented" openness.
But government secrecy experts and openness advocates have another word for the effort, which Obama outlined in a memo released late last week: "superficial."
While embracing Obama's focus on making government more open and accountable, the president's directive from last week "doesn't get to the root" of U.S. government officials' addiction to stamping information "classified," said Steve Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy. "[B]oth the memo's diagnosis and its own suggested remedies are quite superficial," Aftergood wrote in his newsletter and blog this week.
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