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9-11 COMMISSION
REPUDIATES INTELLIGENCE BUDGET SECRECY
The Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9-11 Commission), published today, identified overclassification as a problem requiring attention. It will take time to read and digest the Report's full contents, but the recommendation on secrecy immediately stood out: "Secrecy stifles oversight, accountability, and information sharing. Unfortunately, all the current organizational incentives encourage overclassification. This balance should change; and as a start, open information should be provided about the overall size of agency intelligence budgets." (Executive summary, p. 24). "Recommendation: ...to combat the secrecy and complexity we have described, the overall amounts of money being appropriated for national intelligence and to its component agencies should no longer be kept secret." (Section 13, p. 416). A copy of the Final Report of the 9-11 Commission is mirrored here: http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/911comm.html |
