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Analysis
Defense Budget Tutorial: A preview of next week’s major DOD appropriations bill gimmick
On Thursday, July 20, the Senate Appropriations Committee is scheduled to “mark up” the fiscal year 2007 Department of Defense appropriations bill. Straus Military Reform Project Director Winslow Wheeler explains in this “tutorial” how a gimmick will make it appear that a huge...
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Analysis
TSA Trying to Protect Its “Dubious Secrets”
Many 9/11 victim families have set their sights on the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) dubious Sensitive Security Information (SSI) secrecy marking. One of a number of so-called "sensitive but unclassified" (SBU) information designations, SSI has been...