[net-gold] Secrecy News -- 03/23/11
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- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:58:29 -0400 (EDT)
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:31:48 -0400
From: Steven Aftergood <saftergood@xxxxxxx>
To: Steven Aftergood <saftergood@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Secrecy News -- 03/23/11
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SECRECY NEWS
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from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2011, Issue No. 27
March 23, 2011
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Secrecy News Blog:
http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/
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** DNI SEEKS "INTEGRATED DEFENSE" OF INTEL INFORMATION
** REVIEW OF CIA INTERROGATION PROGRAM UNFINISHED
** USE OF MILITARY FORCE IN DOMESTIC DISTURBANCES (1945)
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DNI SEEKS "INTEGRATED DEFENSE" OF INTEL INFORMATION
The Director of National Intelligence is calling for the "integrated
defense" of intelligence community (IC) information and systems to protect
against unauthorized disclosures of intelligence sources and methods.
While every intelligence agency already has its own security procedures, a
new Intelligence Community Directive issued by the DNI would require a more
coordinated and consistent approach, involving "unified courses of action to
defend the IC information environment."
"The IC information environment is an interconnected shared risk environment
where the risk accepted by one IC element is effectively accepted by all,"
the new Directive said. Therefore, "integrated defense of the IC
information environment is essential to maintaining the confidentiality,
integrity, and availability of all information held by each IC element."
The Directive does not specify the defensive measures that are to be taken,
but states that they should address "the detection, isolation, mitigation
and response to incidents, which include spills, outages, exploits, attacks
and other vulnerabilities." An IC Incident Response Center will maintain
"situational awareness of network topology, including connection points
among IC element networks; threats, vectors, and actions that could
adversely affect the IC information environment; and the overall health and
status of IC information environment defenses."
See "Integrated Defense of the Intelligence Community Information
Environment," Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 502, March 11, 2011:
http://www.fas.org/irp/dni/icd/icd-502.pdf
Although intelligence agencies are not waiting for security policy guidance
from Congress, the intelligence oversight committees seem determined to
provide it anyway.
In its initial markup of the FY2011 intelligence authorization bill, the
House Intelligence Committee has prescribed the establishment of an Insider
Threat Detection Program "in order to detect unauthorized access to, or use
or transmission of, classified intelligence."
http://intelligence.house.gov/markup/fy-2011-intelligence-bill
The Senate Intelligence Committee reportedly wants to require a revised or
supplemental non-disclosure agreement for intelligence employees, by which
they would consent in advance to surrender their pension benefits if they
were found to have committed an unauthorized disclosure.
As far as is known, neither Committee has advanced any new proposals for
reducing unnecessary classification or strengthening protections for
national security whistleblowers.
REVIEW OF CIA INTERROGATION PROGRAM UNFINISHED
It is nearly a decade since the Central Intelligence Agency embarked on its
controversial post-9/11 program of prisoner detention and interrogation,
which included "enhanced" procedures that would later be repudiated and that
were widely regarded as torture. But even now, an accurate and complete
account of that episode remains elusive.
It is more than two years since the Senate Intelligence Committee belatedly
began "a study of the CIA's detention and interrogation program." The
Committee reported this month that "the CIA has made available to the
Committee over 4 million pages of CIA records relating to its detention and
interrogation program."
Yet the Committee said that its two year old review of the nearly decade-old
program is still not complete: "The review has continued toward the goal of
presenting to the Committee, in the [current] 112th Congress, the results of
the review of the extensive documentary record that has been provided to the
Committee." There was no mention of presenting the results of the review to
the public.
See "Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence Covering the Period
January 3, 2009 to January 4, 2001," Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence, March 17, 2011.
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2011_rpt/ssci.pdf
The Intelligence Committee report presented a number of other noteworthy
statements:
A review of electro-optical intelligence satellite collection systems by
members of the Committee's Technical Advisory Group in 2010 "found flawed
processes and results from the earliest stage of the requirements process...
[and] judged the technical justification for the proposed system fell far
short of the standard they expected from an investment of this magnitude."
The Committee staff "found that too many [defense] attaches are not
sufficiently conversant in the languages, cultures, and traditions of the
countries to which they are assigned."
Intelligence agencies continue to fail to produce financial records that can
be independently audited. The National Reconnaissance Office "is the only
one of the IC agencies required to produce auditable financial statements
that has achieved what appears to be a sustainable opinion with no
qualifications from its independent auditors.... The CIA has submitted its
financial reports to an independent auditor but has received a disclaimer of
opinion due to the inability of the auditor to gather certain relevant
facts. The NSA, DIA, and NGA are still not even prepared to submit their
financial reports to independent audit," the Senate report said.
USE OF MILITARY FORCE IN DOMESTIC DISTURBANCES (1945)
Under extreme circumstances, U.S. military force may be turned against
American civilians. An unusually explicit 1945 U.S. military field manual
described tactics for suppressing riots or protests when State and local
officials are unable to control the situation.
"Domestic disturbances are manifestations of civil unrest or tension which
take the form of demonstrations or rioting. These public demonstrations or
riots may reach such proportions that civil authorities cannot maintain law
and order by usual methods. Such disturbances may be caused by agitators,
racial strife, controversies between employees and employers concerning
wages or working conditions, unemployment, lack of housing or food, or other
economic or social conditions."
"A city held by any organized rioters will be attacked generally in the same
manner as one held by enemy troops."
"When small-arms fire is necessary, troops are instructed to aim low to
prevent shots going over the heads of the mob and injuring innocent persons
not members of the mob," the manual said.
For definitional purposes, "a crowd is a large number of persons in a close
body." A "mob is... a crowd whose members, under the stimulus of intense
excitement, have lost their sense of reason and respect for law."
"A mob usually is attacked on the flank, opposite the direction in which it
is desired to drive it. When it is apparent that those in front cannot
retreat because of pressure from the rear, pressure on the front should be
eased temporarily while the rest of the mob is attack with chemical
grenades," the manual advised.
"Bayonets are effective when used against rioters who are able to retreat,
but they should not be used against men who are prevented by those behind
them from retreating even if they wish to do so."
The manual, which was originally classified "Restricted," has long been
deemed obsolete and has been superseded by other guidance on military
support to civil authorities. It was recently digitized by the Combined Arms
Research Library at Fort Leavenworth. See "Domestic Disturbances," Field
Manual 19-15, War Department, July 1945:
http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm19-15.pdf
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