Investigations: CorpWatch On "Incestuous" Intel-Corporate Ties

Round and Round They Go
By Ellen Miller
Earlier this week, CorpWatch published a fascinating article by investigative journalist Tim Shorrock on a new and rapidly growing side of the military-industrial complex: space-age, technology-driven intelligence capabilities. ...
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Books: “Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (And Stick You with the Bill)"

“Free Lunch: How The Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves At ...
Democracy Now - New York,NY,USA
David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist for the New York Times. His latest book is titled “Free Lunch: How The Wealthiest ...
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Interesting: David Kirby On Vaccine-Autism Link

Investigative journalist questions causes of autism
Danbury News Times - Danbury,CT,USA
... the results of removing the compound thimerosal from children's vaccines, will be among topics addressed Sunday by investigative journalist David Kirby. ...
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Books: Sounds Like a Winner!

A Swedish sleuthing trilogy
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
In 2004, for his first journey into fiction, the celebrated Swedish investigative journalist Stieg Larsson obeyed the old saw of writing about what you know ...
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The Biz: Hacks Vs. Sluggos

Investigating the Future of Investigative Journalism. Part II ...
By Joe Eskenazi
... adds: “This is also a time of great opportunity. “Not everyone is completely screwed.” Tomorrow: If there is a future for investigative journalism, who’s going to pay for it? Artwork | Courtesy of www.siliconvalleywatcher.com.
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Interesting: Hersh Interviewed

On the Iraq War, Bush Foreign Policy, Private Contractors and the ...
CounterPunch - Petrolia,CA,USA
By WAJAHAT ALI "I'm having a horrible day," grumbled Seymour Hersh, the 70 year-old Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist, arguably the most ...
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Interesting: CRS Report on U.S. Arms Sales to the Gulf

From today's Secrecy News... Noteworthy new reports from the Congressional Research Service obtained by Secrecy News include the following: "The Gulf Security Dialogue and Related Arms Sale Proposals," January 14, 2008.

Investigations: Israeli Intel on Iran Suspect

Israel's secret war
By Dion Nissenbaum
This is just one of the many examples that Israeli investigative journalist Ronen Bergman recounts in his new book, Nekudat Ha Al-Hazor: Hamodiyin Ha-Israeli Mul Iran Ve-Hezbollah (Point of No Return: Israeli Intelligence Against Iran ...
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Awards: Bangladeshi Investigative Journalism

BANGLADESH: TIB invites reports
Asia Pacific Media Network - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has invited reports for giving awards in investigative journalism on corruption in newspaper and TV channel, ...
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FOI: Insider View of Gov't Secrecy

From Secrecy News, published by the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy, Jan. 14, 2008:

Much of the criticism directed at government secrecy is predicated on the idea that secrecy impedes government accountability and degrades public participation in the deliberative process. But the secrecy system is also subject to growing internal criticism on altogether different grounds: namely, that it "has become dysfunctional in the face of current needs of national security."

"The philosophy behind the policies for secrecy needs to move into the 21st Century and away from the WWII model which was deny to the enemy, grant to as few as possible," said M.E. Bowman, a former FBI intelligence official who returned to government last year in a senior
counter-intelligence capacity.

"Today, in an information sharing environment USG [U.S. Government] personnel are just about always going to be in violation of one executive order (classification or access) or another (sharing). I truly believe that the USG would be better served with a different philosophy behind classification and access," he told Secrecy News.

"I have never lost a court case on protecting secrecy, but that is because the criteria permitted me to win. In fact, a lot of the seminal FOIA law is argument that I developed in litigation. [But] I think the time is long past when we need to amend the criteria."

Mr. Bowman elaborated his critique of the existing information security regime in an article that appeared last year in Intelligencer, the journal of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers. See "Dysfunctional Information Restrictions" by M.E. Bowman, Intelligencer, Fall/Winter 2006-2007, posted with the permission of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (www.afio.com).