[net-gold] Secrecy News -- 01/21/10

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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:40:44 -0500
From: Steven Aftergood <saftergood@xxxxxxx>
To: saftergood@xxxxxxx
Subject: Secrecy News -- 01/21/10 (alt list)

SECRECY NEWS
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2010, Issue No. 7
January 21, 2010

Secrecy News Blog:
http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/

**      EARTHQUAKES, HAITI, AND MORE FROM CRS
**      CRS LAWSUIT, MARINE MAMMALS, DECLASSIFICATION FUNDING

EARTHQUAKES, HAITI, AND MORE FROM CRS

Noteworthy new reports from the Congressional Research Service that have not
been made readily available to the public include the following.

"Earthquakes: Risk, Detection, Warning, and Research," January 14, 2010:

        http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33861.pdf

"Haiti Earthquake: Crisis and Response," January 15, 2010:

        http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R41023.pdf

"U.S. Immigration Policy on Haitian Migrants," January 15, 2010:

        http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RS21349.pdf

"The Future of NASA: Space Policy Issues Facing Congress," January 14, 2010:

        http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/space/R41016.pdf

"The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) -- Responsibilities and
Potential Congressional Concerns," January 15, 2010:

        http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/intel/R41022.pdf

CRS LAWSUIT, MARINE MAMMALS, DECLASSIFICATION FUNDING

A federal court yesterday declined to issue an injunction requiring the
Congressional Research Service to immediately reinstate Col. Morris Davis,
who was fired from CRS after publishing his personal opinions on the subject
of military commissions. But DC District Judge Reggie Walton said that,
based on the record so far, Davis's claim that his termination by CRS
violated the First Amendment appears to be "well-founded."  (First reported
by by Josh Gerstein in Politico, January 20.) Davis is represented by the
ACLU.

     http://www.aclu.org/free-speech/davis-v-billington

A lengthy rule governing the unintentional "taking" of marine mammals by the
U.S. Navy, resulting in their harassment, injury, or death, was published in
the Federal Register today.  The rule does not deal with the use of marine
mammals for defense missions that was the subject of a recent Navy
Instruction, but with the damage to these animals that is anticipated due to
military activities conducted at the Naval Surface Warfare Center.
"Although the Navy requests authorization to take marine mammals by
mortality, NMFS does not expect any animals to be killed," according to the
Commerce Department's National Marine Fisheries Service.

     http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2010/01/marine.html

The Office of Management and Budget has authorized a request for $5 million
in next year's budget to fund the new National Declassification Center that
is supposed to coordinate and expedite the declassification of historical
records.  The budget request, to be presented to Congress next month, was
noted yesterday by William H. Leary of the National Security Council in a
panel discussion at American University's Collaboration on Government
Secrecy on the new Obama Executive Order on national security
classification.

     http://www.wcl.american.edu/lawandgov/cgs/

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