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Overclassification
Related Resources (government documents and letters)
POGO Files
Amendments to Defense Budget Will Hold Pentagon More Accountable; POGO Urges Senate to Follow Suit
May 27, 2011
POGO Calls on Congress to Amend Defense Budget to Protect the Public’s Right to Know, Cut Wasteful Spending
May 25, 2011
Federal Agencies Blocking FOIA Requests with 'Exemptions Gone Wild,' POGO Tells Congressional Panel
March 17, 2011
Podcast: POGO Discusses the Latest WikiLeaks Disclosures POGO staffers sit down to discuss something that relates to so many aspects of our work—the latest WikiLeaks disclosures.
December 6, 2010
Controlled Unclassified Information Gets A Presidential Makeover
November 4, 2010
Public Comment on Declassification on OSTP Blog
July 19, 2009
Statement by POGO's Danielle Brian for Briefing on Growing Government Secrecy & the Sibel Edmonds Case
April 20, 2005
POGO vs. Ashcroft: Lawsuit over retroactive classification of FBI whistleblowers allegations; compendium of court documents
March 1, 2005
Justice Department Caves In: Allows Publication of Retroactively Classified Information; Lawsuit Challenged Classification of Public Information
February 22, 2005
DHS Closes the Door on Accessing FOIA-able Information
January 25, 2005
Coalition Letter to Members of Congress regarding the Transportation Secrecy Provision in HR 3550
July 26, 2004
President Bush Renews Environmental Exemption for Area 51
September 17, 2003
POGO Urges Department of Energy to Restore Access to Web Sites
January 14, 2002
POGO letter urging Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham to restore citizen access to the Department of Energy's web sites
January 11, 2002
Organizations Signing the Veto of U.S. "Official Secrets Act"
January 25, 2001
Petition for Veto of U.S. "Official Secrets Act"
January 25, 2001
Related Resources
Letter to President Bush from Representatives John Dingell (D-MI) and Henry Waxman (D-CA) regarding Halliburton
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March 14, 2005
POGO's et al. amicus brief in support of Sibel Edmonds
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January 19, 2005
Inside the White House Advisory Group: Influential Business Leaders, Former Officials, Sit at the Homeland Security Table
By Christopher Logan, Congressional Quarterly
October 18, 2002
President Clinton's Veto Statement on the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 2001
, The White House: Office of the Press Secretary
November 4, 2000
Furor over "Leak" Statute Escalates
, Secrecy News from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
October 31, 2000
POGO in the News
Administration falling short on FOIA compliance, critics say, By Robert Brodsky, Government Executive, March 17, 2011
Agencies use new label for safeguarded docs, By Jolie Lee, Federal News Radio, November 5, 2010
Executive Order Reduces Total Of Classified Papers, By Ari Shapiro, National Public Radio, December 30, 2009
A Sibel Edmonds Timeline: "We Can't Afford to Let Them Spill the Beans", By Gary Leupp, CounterPunch, January 29, 2008
Bush Administration Ramps up Secrecy, by William Fisher, Atlantic Free Press.com, September 10, 2007
An official secrets act might keep Congress in the dark: Legislation aimed at criminalizing the disclosure of classified information is a threat not only to whistle blowers and the press but to Congress’s exercise of its own oversight function as well, By Nick Schwellenbach, Nieman Watchdog, August 25, 2006
State Your Secrets, By Louis Fisher, Legal Times, June 26, 2006
Give judges a peek at secrets; Courts don't have to roll over for the executive branch's claims of secrecy, By Louis Fisher, The Los Angeles Times, June 14, 2006
Fight Focuses on Copter Records: Defense Contractor Files Suit to Deny Access, , Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 5, 2006
Excessive Secrecy Won't Make Americans Safe, By Danielle Brian, The Star Democrat, August 1, 2005
Court Closes FBI Case Arguments to the Public, By Pete Yost, Associated Press, April 21, 2005
Access to Memos Is Affirmed, Classified Status Can't Be Changed, By R. Jeffrey Smith, The Washington Post, February 23, 2005
9/11 Victims' Families and National Security Whistleblowers Demand End to Government Silencing of Employees Who Expose Security Risks, , American Civil Liberties Union, January 26, 2005
Searches and gag orders: Homeland Security’s unprecedented campaign cloaks unclassified info , by Eileen Sullivan, Federal Times, December 6, 2004
The Harm of Too Much Secrecy: Reducing oversight of intelligence agencies would impair our ability to fight terrorism, By Nick Schwellenbach, Houston Chronicle, November 5, 2004
Government secrecy grows out of control, By POGO's Nick Schwellenbach, Corvallis Gazette-Times, September 21, 2004
Reclassifying Security Information, , The Diane Rehm Show, June 28, 2004
Why secrecy won't make us safe, By Danielle Brian, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, July 6, 2003
Keeping Secrets at Too High a Price, Thomas S. Blanton, New York Times, August 22, 2001
