April 24, 2007
Pentagon Proposes New Info Access Restrictions
The Department of Defense has asked Congress to enact two expansive new provisions in the FY 2008 defense authorization act to help it restrict public access to information.
One of the provisions would create a new exemption to the Freedom of Information Act for certain unclassified information related to weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The other would establish civil and criminal penalties for the unauthorized publication or sale of maps and images ("geodetic products") that the Secretary of Defense has designated for "limited distribution."
complete blog entry w/links |Secrecy News
~"Terrorism is easy" so unclassified info must be banned.
Also the DOD wants to penalize State Department designated "inappropriate disclosures" of geodetic information, "including postings of such products on the internet".
[illus. not with above]
Posted by Stubbornson at April 24, 2007 02:08 PM