Press Releases Could Get Security Stamp From White House [1]
July 3, 2008
Under a new White House directive, embargoed press releases could be guarded as "Controlled Unclassified Information."
President Bush on May 9, 2008, issued a "Memorandum For The Heads Of Executive Departments And Agencies" ostensibly meant to regularize the patchwork of extra-legal secrecy stamps that have proliferated over the last 7 years.
A background paper accompanying the memo said embargoed press releases could be withheld using the CUI stamp temporarily, according to the Federation of American Scientists' Government Secrecy Project.
- "Press Releases Could Become 'Controlled Unclassified Info'," [2] Secrecy News, Federation of American Scientists, May 28, 2008, by Steven Aftergood.
- "White House Issues Policy on 'Controlled Unclassified Info'," [3] Secrecy News, Federation of American Scientists, May 12, 2008, by Steven Aftergood.
- "Memorandum For The Heads Of Executive Departments And Agencies," [4] Executive Office of the President, May 9, 2008.
- Previous Story: WatchDog of May 21, 2008. [5]
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