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Through research, advocacy, and public education,
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works to challenge excessive government secrecy
and to promote public oversight.

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Here's a taste of what they offer:
December 2005
• National Guard Official Warns Against NorthCom Bid for "Complete Authority", email message from MG Timothy Lowenberg, October 31. "Although usually couched in terms of "support for governors", the NORTHCOM proposals would bring about a fundamental change in the emergency governance of states impacted by large scale disasters. Some might liken this to a policy of domestic regime change."
• Government Secrecy: Is Too Much Kept From the Public? by Kenneth Jost, CQ Researcher, December 2, 2005. A comprehensive survey of current issues in government secrecy (24 pages, 1 MB PDF file). For permission to distribute or to purchase hardcopies, contact Julie Miller at JMiller@CQPress.com or (202)729-1827.
• How the CIA Blew Its Prisons Cover by Josh Gerstein, New York Sun, December 8. "While Secretary of State Rice fends off questioning in Europe over CIA-run air flights of prisoners in the war on terror, some analysts outside the CIA are asking how the flights were exposed so easily."
• 'Earmarking' has grown in Congress by Toby Eckert, Copley News Service, December 3. "Former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham's admission that he accepted bribes from defense contractors has renewed scrutiny of the growing power that lawmakers have to steer business to favored companies and causes."
• Pentagon's 'Black Budget' Veils Contracting Shenanigans by David Wood, Newhouse News, December 1. "The super-secret part of the defense budget -- the classified, or 'black' budget -- hides some $28 billion in spending. Government auditors and even senators have to get special clearance to see the details."

http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2005/12/index.html

Provides links to a lot of interesting Congressional Research Service (CRS) documents too.

and it is through examining the devilish details that we can understand how we are being governed and what an appropriate and intelligent response is to such governance. Even if that response is to run like hell.

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We may not have any power beyond shining the light on the wicked folks in the White House but that we can do.

Great archives section.

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