Disclosure and secrecy: security classification executive orders
Article Abstract:
The Soviet Union's disintegration has made paramount the reassessment of security classification executive orders, the re-evaluation of the system they have spawned and the correction/compensation of the imbalance between the branches of government that this system has produced. Nine major executive orders on security classification have been issued since 1940 and have helped make the presidency increasingly powerful often at the expense of other government branches. They were instrumental in building a broad secrecy/classification system that has given the executive branch the power to conceal information often for long periods of time.
Publication Name: Journalism & Mass Communication Monographs
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 1077-6966
Year: 1997
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Turning back the clock on access: FOIA case requires public to show compelling need for disclosure
Article Abstract:
A Sixth Circuit US Court of Appeals ruling on Mar 1991 created a compelling need requirement for validating Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests when a request was filed for documents from a Justice Department antitrust investigation of Kentucky Utilities Co. The documents were protected under a settlement order but a Lexington Herald-Leader reporter requested access under FOIA because the settlement directly affected public interest. The court's rejection of the request is a sign of the damage to FOIA wrought by President Reagan's appointed judges.
Publication Name: The IRE Journal
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0164-7016
Year: 1992
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
"Who Reads Here?": back talking with Houston Baker
Article Abstract:
An analysis of Houston A. Baker Jr.'s 'Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics ofAfro-American Women's Writing' is presented. Baker is a critic who has made contributions to Afro-American literature. His book leads readers to ask questions and provides thought into the workings of Afro-American women authors. He discusses the importance of phallic criticism, the abundance of mullatto heroes and rape.
Publication Name: Novel
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0029-5132
Year: 1992
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: High court rules trade secret law unconstitutional: judge's order using law to restrain publication voided. Texas high court strikes down gag orders
- Abstracts: EMS Technologies appoints directors. L-3 Communications elects Canizares to board. Dubois promoted at DigitalGlobe
- Abstracts: Metempsychosis of the machine: science fiction in the halls of karma
- Abstracts: Description and speculation: an interview with Robin Becker. The subject is life: an interview with Naomi Shihab Nye
- Abstracts: High court lets separation order stand. Executive order requires agencies to pursue alternatives to litigation