[net-gold] Secrecy News -- 04/10/12

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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:42:49 -0400 (EDT)

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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:07:52 -0400
From: Steven Aftergood <saftergood@xxxxxxx>
To: saftergood@xxxxxxx
Subject: Secrecy News -- 04/10/12

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SECRECY NEWS

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from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2012, Issue No. 32 April 10, 2012

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Secrecy News Blog:

http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/

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**     SECRET SATELLITE PROMPTLY DETECTED IN ORBIT

**     PINK SLIME, AND MORE FROM CRS

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SECRET SATELLITE PROMPTLY DETECTED IN ORBIT

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On April 3, the National Reconnaissance Office successfully launched a
classified intelligence satellite into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Notwithstanding the usual operations security measures, amateur satellite
trackers were able to locate the satellite in orbit within a few hours and
even to videotape its passage overhead.

        http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2012/04/

Last week's launch is the first of four scheduled launches of NRO satellites
in the next five months.  Last year, the NRO launched six satellites over a
seven month period.

"We are in the middle of a launch campaign with an unprecedented operational
tempo across national security space programs," said Gil Klinger, deputy
assistant secretary of defense for space policy, at a March 8 hearing of the
House Armed Services Committee.

        http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2012_hr/030812klinger.pdf

"Many of our space capabilities have become the 'dial tone' of national
security," Mr. Klinger said. "And like the dial tone of our telephones, we
take their availability and presence for granted, noticing only when there
is an unplanned service interruption."

By intelligence community standards, the NRO has demonstrated exceptional
financial management, said Betty Sapp, NRO principal deputy director.

"For the third year in a row, the NRO received a clean audit opinion on our
Financial Statements, a truly unprecedented accomplishment within the IC,"
she said at the March 8 hearing.

        http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2012_hr/030812sapp.pdf

PINK SLIME, AND MORE FROM CRS

New reports from the Congressional Research Service that Congress has not
made publicly available include the following.

Lean Finely Textured Beef: The "Pink Slime" Controversy, April 6, 2012:

        http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42473.pdf

Government Procurement in Times of Fiscal Uncertainty, April 9, 2012:

        http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42469.pdf

An Analysis of STEM Education Funding at the NSF: Trends and Policy
Discussion, April 9, 2012:

        http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42470.pdf

Federal Depository Library Program: Issues for Congress, March 29, 2012:

        http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42457.pdf

Export-Import Bank: Background and Legislative Issues, April 3, 2012:

        http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42472.pdf

The Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement
(CAFTA-DR): Developments in Trade and Investment, April 9, 2012:

        http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R42468.pdf

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Steven Aftergood
Project on Government Secrecy
Federation of American Scientists
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