Wikileaks, Classified Information, and National Security

Pathfinder to: leaked and classified information, national security, espionage, freedom of information, whistleblowers, secrecy, sunshine, openness and transparency.

Click on a subject to find books in the I.C. Library

• Assange, Julian.
• Communication in politics
• Ellsberg, Daniel.
• Freedom of information--United States.
• Freedom of the press--United States
• Government and the press--United States.
• Government information.
• Leaks (Disclosure of information)
• National security--United States
• Official secrets--United States.
• Pentagon Papers.
• Secrecy
• Security classification (Government documents)--United States.
• Transparency in government.
• Whistle blowing--Political aspects.
• WikiLeaks (Organization)

Leak sites:

• WikiLeaks
• OpenLeaks
• BalkanLeaks
• BrusselsLeaks  (not found Fall 2011)
• Indoleaks
• RuLeaks.net  (Russian WikiLeaks)

Government information access sites:
These sites have declassified documents or facilitate government transparency:

• National Security Archive (at George Washington University)
  

  Declassified documents pertaining to national security obtained by FOIA requests.  Contains collections such as the Torture Archive (primary sources related to the detention and interrogation of individuals by the United States).

• Open CRS: Congressional Research Report for the People
  Congressional Research Service (CRS) provides background reports to Congress yet they were not distributed to government document collections. Citizens had to write their Congressional representatives to obtain copies. The Open CRS site has indexed and posted copies of these valuable documents.
  Search:  Classified Information
  Protecting Classified Information and the Rights of Criminal Defendants: The Classified Information Procedures Act (3/31/11) * in Secrecy News (5/12/11); not yet in Open CRS
  Protection of Classified Information by Congress: Practices and Proposals (1/27/10)
  The State Secrets Privilege and Other Limits on Litigation Involving Classified Information (5/28/09)
• CIA: Special Collections Archive
• FBI Records:  The Vault
• Internet Archive (Prelinger): United States Government Films
• C-SPAN
  Non-profit corporation funded by cable and satellite affiliates that provides public access to daily political events such as congressional debates.  See also: C-SPAN's Video Library (programs from 1987+),
  
• OpenCongress
  Non-for-profit and open source site that brings together news and government data. Visitors can track and comment on legislators and legislation.
• OpenCourt (Quincey District Court, Mass.)
  WBUR (NPR Boston) runs this pilot where the Quincey District Court will live stream proceedings.
  
• OpenJurist
  Access to US Supreme Court and Federal Appellate opinions. 
  
• Opensecrets.org: Your Guide to the Money in U.S. Elections
  This site by the Center for Responsive Politics eports on PACs, donors, soft money and lobbyists in U.S. elections.
  
• Oyez: New York Times v. United States (403 U.S. 713 (1971) - "Pentagon Papers Case") ; see also Bertnicki v. Vopper (532 U. S. 514 (2001))
• Project Sunlight
  NY State Office of the Attorney General's portal to NY State information.

Additional Government sites of interest:
Try searching FDsys for Wikileaks

• United States, & United States. (1997). Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy: Pursuant to Public Law 236, 103rd Congress. Washington, DC: U.S. G.P.O. Also in print: JK468.S4 U48 1997
• 5 U.S.C. 552 Public information; agency rules, opinions, orders, records, and proceedings
  18 U.S.C. 3 Classified Information Procedures Act:  Protective Orders
  18 U.S.C. 371 Conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud United States
  18 U.S.C. 793 Espionage Act (Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information)
  18 U.S.C. 798  Disclosure of classified information
• Bills: Search THOMAS for:  disclosure classified information  to retrieve (as of April 2011):
  H.R. 592 Sunshine Litigation Act of 2011  ; S. 623 Sunshine Litigation Act of 2011
  H.R. 703 Securing Human Intelligence and Enforcing Lawful Dissemination Act ; S. 315 Securing Human Intelligence and Enforcing Lawful Dissemination Act
  S. 354 Classified Information Procedures Reform and Improvement Act of 2011
  S. 355 Espionage Statutes Modernization Act of 2011
  S. 719  Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011
• Government Documents:  FDsys: Search (as of April 2011): collection:CPD and content:(information disclosure)
  [CPD: Compiliation of Presidential Documents]  Sort:  new to old
  29 WCPD 17 Executive Order 12829--National Industrial Security Program [PDF 34KB}
  DCPD-201000942 - Executive Order 13556-Controlled Unclassified Information [PDF 42 KB]
  DCPD-200901022 - Executive Order 13526-Classified National Security Information [PDF 144KB]
  DCPD-201000692 - Executive Order 13549-Classified National Security Information Program for State, Local, Tribal, and Private Sector Entities [PDF 56KB]
• Congressional Record:  156 Cong. Rec. H7760 It is time to shut Wikileaks down (pdf)
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• Official Documents of the United Nations (ODS)
• Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives
• Senate Committee on Homeland Security
• House Armed Services Committee, McKeon Statement on Latest Wikileaks Release, November 29, 2010.
• U. S. Department of Defense
• U. S. Department of Justice
• U. S. Department of State
• Homeland Security ; Homeland Security Digital Library
• Central Intelligence Agency
• National Security Agency
• National Security Archives: Information Security Oversight Office  : 2010 Cost Report

C-SPAN Video Library: A selection.
For more videos. search the C-SPAN Video Library

• Julian Assange: C-SPAN Biographical History
• Espionage Act and the legal constitutional issues raised by Wikileaks [electronic resource] : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, December 16, 2010.(video embedded, above).
• Information sharing in the era of Wikileaks: Balancing security and collaboration: hearing before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, March 20, 2011.   (video and transcript from C-SPAN).
• Whistleblowers Debate on "Whistleblowers make the World Safer." (1 hour, 29 minutes).  Frontline Club, April 9, 2011.
• Secretary Clinton on Internet Freedom (46 minutes).  George Washington University, February 15, 2011.
• Wikileaks Publication of Classified Documents (1 hour, 31 minutes).  Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism, February 3, 2011.
• Presidential Remarks on Wikileaks Release of Classified Documents (July 27, 2010).  White House.  July 27, 2010.

Bulldog Film's website including a study guide. Available at IC Library: DVD 5332

• Where can I find out how to file for information under the Freedom of Information Act?

Find background on key people in the library database:

• Julian Assange 
• Thomas A. Drake  (from FAS)
• Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
• Daniel Ellsberg
• Defense Secretary Robert Gates 
• Attorney General Eric Holder
• Pvt. Bradley Manning 

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Background:

• Facts.com (a digest of news articles; also includes reference works)  Entry on the Pentagon Papers  Entry on: Selected Editorials: Wikileaks
• CQ Researcher: adapted from Kingsbury, A. (2011, February 11). Government secrecy. CQ Researcher, 21, 121-144.  Highly recommended!  Search "Government Secrecy" or browse reports for "Military Intelligence"
• Encyclopaedia Britannica Online   Entry on Wikileaks. 

Best Bets:

• Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
• LexisNexis Academic -- Federal News Service
• LISTA: Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
• Academic Search Premier
• America: History and Life
• Military and Government Collection
• Alternative Press Index
• PolicyArchive
  
• WorldCat (via FirstSearch)   If we don't own a book, try borrowing it using ILL.

Sample searches in EBSCO:

• ASSANGE, Julian
• CONFIDENTIAL communications
• ELLSBERG, Daniel
• LEAKS (Disclosure of information)
• ESPIONAGE
• NATIONAL security -- United States
• OFFICIAL secrets
• Pentagon Papers
• SECURITY classification (Government documents)
• WHISTLEBLOWERS
• WIKILEAKS
  

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• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Wikileaks: News and Background
• Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
• Center for Democracy & Technology   Information on:  Open Government OR Security and Surveillance
• Citizen Media Law Project Search on Wikileaks
• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)   Wikileaks
• Hudson Institute: publication: Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law   (note: I'll order this book in June 2011; before that, borrow it using ILL)
• Media Law Resource Center (MLRC) "Espionage and the First Amendment"
• New America Foundation. Open Data   Rebecca MacKinnon on Wikileaks, the Internet and Foreign Policy,  C-SPAN, 2/22/2011
• OMB Watch
• OpenCongress
• Opensecrets.org: Your Guide to the Money in U.S. Elections
• OpenTheGovernment.org   Publishes the Secrecy Report Card
• Project on Government Oversight
• Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
• Sunshine in Government Initiative
• Sunshine Week   Annual event that celebrates open government and freedom of information.  It is held the week of March 16th, James Madison's birthday.
• Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press News on Wikileaks

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