From OpenTheGovernment.org: Be on the lookout for the upcoming release of the latest version of our Secrecy Report. As regular readers may know, this report includes multi-year tracking and analysis of indicators of openness and secrecy in the federal government. Among the indicators included in the report are: national intelligence spending, responses to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, classification and declassification, and more.
This year's report will also include an explanation of how some of the revelations made as a result of documents leaked by Edward Snowden throw serious doubt on the validity and meaningfulness of the numbers the government releases about the size and scope of surveillance programs. It will also include what we now understand to be the possible breadth and scope of the National Security Agency's communications surveillance programs as a result of these leaks.
Additionally, this year's report will include a special section outlining specific steps the Administration should take to kick-start a real move towards openness. Similar to results from our prior years’ Secrecy Report (PDF), this year's will show that, while there has been some reduction in secrecy in the federal government, the change is slow. The steps included in our special section are targeted at creating rapid change that would translate into a more open, efficient, and accountable government.
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