Senate intelligence panel could seek to declassify documents; it just doesn’t
Source: McClatchy
Senate intelligence panel could seek to declassify documents; it just doesn’t
WASHINGTON — Outspoken members of the Senate Intelligence Committee have said frequently that they wanted to warn the public about the National Security Agency’s sweeping collection of telephone records but the program’s highly classified nature prevented them from making public reference to the programs.
That, however, is not the full story. Buried in the pages of Senate Resolution 400, which established the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in 1976, is a provision that allows them to try. Across those nearly 40 years, it’s never been used.
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As a part of this oversight, Section 8 of the resolution lays out a process by which a member of the Intelligence Committee may seek the declassification of information that he or she thinks is of public interest, even if the executive branch labels the material top secret.
“The select committee may, subject to the provisions of this section, disclose publicly any information in the possession of such committee after a determination by such committee that the public interest would be served by such disclosure,” the section reads
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Otherwise, we'd all be in the Matrix before they started to resist.
...that anything would change. No, seriously. This is who we are and what we do.
- Until we stop....
K&R