Bush Turned His EO on Classified Information into Pixie Dust, Too
Yesterday, I expanded on the reasons why the OLC opinion holding that Presidents aren’t bound by their own Executive Orders is so scary. It means that every Executive Order may have been turned to...
View ArticleSteven Aftergood Takes on Pixie Dust
Oh this ought to be fun. You’ll recall that when I was in my week-long Pixie Dust* tizzie last year, I was the first to reveal the purported resolution of Cheney’s Fourth Branch stand-off with Bill...
View ArticleHow DOJ Put Off Confessing To Their Pixie Dust
After folks noted this footnote from Steven Aftergood’s request that the Office of Professional Responsibility look into the Pixie Dust* surrounding Executive Order 13292 and Dick Cheney’s claims to be...
View ArticleSurely They’ll Resort to Pixie Dust on This
MadDog linked to this while I was away at the dentist, but since I’m a big fan of both Secrecy News and of Bill Leonard, I wanted to highlight it in a post of its own. Bill Leonard, who until Cheney...
View ArticleJust Making It Up on Classification
A number of you have pointed to smintheus’ excellent post on Bush’s new classification, Controlled Unclassified Information. On Friday afternoon, with George Bush in Texas for his daughter’s wedding,...
View ArticleTom Davis Supports Waxman’s Demand for Cheney’s Interview Materials
Retiring GOP Congressman Tom Davis must have accepted that we’ll soon have a Democrat in the White House. He has joined Henry Waxman in declaring Bush’s (Mukasey’s, really) invocation of executive...
View ArticleDid Somebody Improperly Make Torture a Special Access Program?
I wanted to take one last look at the Panetta declaration, this time with respect to what it says about classifying torture (also see Mary’s long comment and pmorlan’s comment on this topic). NSC...
View ArticleIn 2004, the White House Considered FISA’s Exclusivity Provision to Be Top...
As I have noted before, there are a number of paragraphs in the May 6, 2004 Goldsmith memo authorizing warrantless wiretapping that appear to be badly overclassified. Not only were many of the same...
View ArticleReality Winner Seeks to Use Trump’s Denials of Russian Hacking in Her Defense
Last week, Reality Winner had a hearing on her bid to get her interview with the FBI thrown out because they didn’t issue her a Miranda warning (Kevin Gosztola covered and discussed it on Democracy...
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