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ACLU posts three more torture memos from CIA and Justice Dept [ACLU]

53 new documents posted at the CIA’s FOIA site [CIA]

Pentagon Inspector General audit: “Accountability for Defense Security Service Assets With Personally Identifiable Information” [DOD IG] [News article]

Pentagon FOIA release: “National Security Personnel System payouts FY 2007″ [DOD]
>>> background: What is NSPS? [SecDef]

Terrorism-related DOJ / US Attorney indictments, January 1994 - April 2004 [Government Attic]

Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction audit: “Comprehensive Plan Needed to Guide the Future of the Iraq Reconstruction Management System” [SIGIR]

Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction report: “Key Recurring Management Issues Identified in Audits of Iraq Reconstruction Efforts” [SIGIR]

Justice Dept Inspector General report: “An Investigation of Allegations of Politicized Hiring by Monica Goodling and Other Staff in the Office of the Attorney General, July 2008″ [DOJ IG]

EPA graciously allows 3 Senators to briefly view document concluding that greenhouse gases contribute to climate change [WaPo]

>>> related: Republicans block effort to subpoena global warming documents [LAT]

>>> related: Documents show EPA staff ordered to stonewall investigators and media [PEER]

Authorized Classification Markings in U.S. Intelligence [Secrecy News]

Why Is It So Hard to Get Documents from the National Archives About the National Archives? [HNN via FGI]

NIOSH report shows prison staff & inmates exposed to toxic metals for years [PEER]

UK: Leaked witness statements in trial of Corporal Daniel James [Cryptome]

Want to know what’s in your FBI file? [Exhibit A Baltimore] (Thanks, M)

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Leaking news & docs

flashback: Key lawmakers - including Pelosi - were briefed on waterboarding, other torture techniques & the CIA’s secret prisons in 2002 [WashPost] Not only did they approve of these things, they encouraged them.

major investigative series: Deadly denial: Nuclear weapons workers who risked their safety in the Cold War now must fight for compensation [Rocky Mountain News] Includes primary documents

ACLU of Maryland Lawsuit Uncovers Maryland State Police Spying Against Peace and Anti-Death Penalty Groups [ACLU] Scroll down for the documents

>> related: COINTELPRO Returns: My First-Hand Experience With Government Spies [HuffPost/Alternet]

A CIA Lawyer’s Smoking Gun [ Village Voice]. Interrogators were told: ‘If a detainee dies, you’re doing it wrong.’

New Pentagon Top Watchdog: A Part-Time Job [CBS]

Controlled Unclassified Info May Be Classified, US-Czech Doc Says [Secrecy News]

Arlington Cemetery official fired for honoring the wishes of the families of deceased Iraq war soldiers. The Bush admin wants no media coverage [AmericaBlog/WashPost] (Thanks to DM)

E-mail public documents get erased, disappear [AP]

flashback: Government Concedes Vaccine-Autism Case in Federal Court - Now What? [HuffPost]

>> also: The goverment’s unprecedented vaccine-court filing [HuffPost]

Appeal of Vice-President Visitor Logs Lawsuit Dismissed [FOIA Blog]

Intel Official Blasts NYT Disclosure of CIA Interrogator’s Name [Secrecy News]

Book Cites Secret Red Cross Report of C.I.A. Torture of Qaeda Captives [NYT]

The Air Force brass is pushing lush travel accommodations for themselves while troops put up with mangled seats on cargo aircraft [POGO]

How reliable is DNA in identifying suspects? [LA Times] “A discovery leads to questions about whether the odds of people sharing genetic profiles are sometimes higher than portrayed. Calling the finding meaningless, the FBI has sought to block such inquiry.”

Embedded Photojournalist Accuses US Military of Censorship After Being Barred for Publishing Photo of Dead Marine [Democracy Now!]

The Dark Side of the Toyota Prius [In These Times]

The Counterculture Colonel [Bohemian]. “During the 1960s, the U.S. Army tested a potent form of synthetic marijuana on soldiers to develop a secret weapon. Meet the Santa Rosa resident who ran the program”

>> related: Reports on Psychochemical Weapons [Memory Hole]

Scientology’s Crushing Defeat [Village Voice]

Actor plans to film long-lost García Márquez screenplay [Guardian]

Lost Films and TV Programs [AFI]

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Leaking news

Leaked World Bank report: Biofuels causing food crisis [Guardian]

White House blocking EPA report on regulating greenhouse gases emissions [WSJ]

Head of CDC Admits on CNN that Vaccines can Trigger Autism [Mercola.com]

Nutrition labels are inaccurate, and that’s OK with the FDA [ABC News]

US Allowed South Korean Massacres of Political Prisoners [AP]

DOJ Oversight Office Isn’t Releasing Reports [ProPublica]

Do We Really Know the Amounts of Greenhouse Gases Being Released by Corporations? [Dirt Diggers Digest]

Internal EPA Document Shows 500 Enforcement Cases Adversely Affected [COGRO]

New Lobbyist Disclosure Requirements [Sunlight Foundation]

Missing reels from Lang’s ‘Metropolis’ discovered [London Independent]