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News Highlights - February 16 - 19, 2013

New Bill Helps Expand Public Access to Scientific Knowledge
How Can We Ensure Transparency and Integrity at the Intersection of Science and Policy Making?
Most Open Country 2013: Government Transparency Ranked by Open Budget Survey
Only Congressional Pressure Can Drive Real Federal Spending Transparency Reforms

02/19/2013

News Highlights - February 15, 2013

House Convenes Second Public Meeting on Bulk Legislative Data
Obama on Drones: Americans Deserve to Know More About the Program
Obama DOJ Again Refuses to Tell a Court Whether Drone Program Even Exists
Opinion: Drones: Transparency on Rules for Their Use is a Must
Opinion: Should Media be Disclosing Locations of Drone Bases?

02/15/2013

News Highlights - February 14, 2013

Senators Delay Vote on Brennan, Seek More Information on Drone Campaign
Watchdogs Square Off with Lawyers Over Ethics Rules
Context for Judicial Oversight of the Targeted Killing Program
OMB Guidance Promised to Ensure USAspending Accuracy
Navigating a Sea of Records

02/14/2013

News Highlights - February 9 - 11, 2013

Has Obama Kept His Open Government Pledge?
DOJ White Paper Released as Matter of "Discretion"
Leak of White Paper Boosts Intelligence Oversight
Lawmakers Debate Oversight of Drone Strikes
Leahy and Grassley Demand Drone Legal Memos from Obama
Opinion: Keeping Secrets
Drones, Brennan, and Obama's Legacy of Secrecy
Opinion: CIA Report Must Be Declassified
Requesting Records Across Agencies

02/11/2013

News Highlights - February 8, 2013

Let the Secrecy Wars Continue
Analysis: John Brennan Offers Few Details on 'Targeted Killings'
A Time to Explain the Drone Campaign
Who Decided Not to Show Congress the Drone Memos?
Drone Memo Not Shared with Senate Staffers
Spotlight on DOD Special Access Programs
Obama Finds Limits to Government Transparency Amid Openness Vow
Secrect Surveillance Court Gets New Presiding Judge
Brennan: 'Perhaps' Classification System Outdated
FOIA Foiled Again

02/08/2013

News Highlights - February 7, 2013

Congress to See Memo Backing Drone Attacks on Americans
Ron Wyden: Declassify More on Drones
5 Questions for John Brennan Confirmation Hearing
Obama Pressed on Information Requests
Watchdog Finds More than $1 Trillion in Misreported Federal Spending
Homeland Only Fully Approves 10% of Information Requests
Judge Walton Named Presiding Judge of FISA Court

02/07/2013

News Highlights - February 6, 2013

Keeping Secrets from Congress
Brennan Nomination Exposes Criticism on Targeted Killings and Secret Saudi Base
The End of the Beginning: Lessons from Open Government So Far
More on Targeted Killing White Paper
Opinion: To Kill an American
Opinion: US Needs a Rulebook for Secret Warfare

02/06/2013

News Highlights - February 5, 2013

Justice Department Memo Reveals Legal Case for Drone Strikes on Americans
Senators Demand Secret Memos on Targeted Killing
OTG's Opinion: Obama II: Bush-Cheney Redux?

02/05/2013

News Highlights February 2 -4, 2013

Broad Powers Seen for Obama in Cyberstrikes
With Open Data, the Transparency Medium Can Matter as Much as the Message
Appeals Court Blocks Journalist's Attempt to Access AIG Consultant Reports
New Tool Helps Users Explore Federal Rulemaking
Open Public Access to Court Records

02/04/2013

News Highlights - February 1, 2013

DOJ Tells Judge Wikileaks Investigation Details Should Remain Secret
Judge Orders End to a Secret Censorship of Guantanamo Court
Opinion: Achieving Greater Transparency in Government

02/01/2013

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