CLASSIFIED INFORMATION

Analyses

Federal Employee Protection of Disclosures Act (S. 1229), S7642 [10JN]

Federal Employee Protection of Disclosures Act (S. 1358), S8755 [26JN]

Articles and editorials

Bush Administration Adopts a Worse-Than-Nixonian Tactic—The Deadly Serious Crime of Naming CIA Operatives, S12154-S12156 [30SE]

Dangerous Leak, E1985 [7OC]

Independent Probe, E1985 [7OC]

Secrecy—The Bush Byword, S4548 [31MR]

Senior Federal Prosecutors and FBI Officials Fault Ashcroft Over Leak Inquiry, S12663 [16OC]

Who's Unpatriotic Now?, S9669 [22JY]

Bills and resolutions

Computers: require Federal agencies to protect the security and privacy of Government computer systems from the risks posed by peer-to-peer file sharing (see H.R. 3159), H8904 [24SE]

Federal employees: clarify disclosures of information protected from prohibited personnel practices and require a statement of nondisclosure policies (see S. 1229), S7619 [10JN] (see S. 1358), S8725 [26JN] (see H.R. 3281), H9376 [8OC]

Homeland Security Act: protect voluntarily furnished confidential information (see H.R. 2526), H5661 [19JN]

Human rights: establish a process for executive agencies for declassifying and disclosing certain documents relating to abuses in foreign countries (see H.R. 2534), H5662 [19JN]

Presidential Records Act: establish procedures for the consideration of claims of constitutionality based privilege against disclosure of Presidential records (see S. 1517), S10617 [31JY] (see H.R. 1493), H2471 [27MR]

Terrorism: allow access and handling by State and local government personnel of classified information to facilitate preparation and response to terrorist attacks (see S. 266), S1813 [30JA]

Letters

Appointment of special counsel to investigate alleged release of identity of CIA operative by Bush administration officials: several Senators, S12662 [16OC]

Federal Employee Protection of Disclosures Act: Coleen Rowley, S7642 [10JN], S8755 [26JN]

———Elaine Kaplan, Office of Special Counsel, S7641 [10JN], S8753 [26JN]

Lists

Members of Congress taking oath for access to classified information, H251 [31JA], H326 [7FE], H696 [13FE], H5041 [5JN]

Remarks in House

China, People's Republic of: espionage, E2002 [8OC]

CIA: study feasibility of providing security clearances to State and local law enforcement for access to classified information relative to homeland security and prevention of terrorism, H5868 [25JN]

Computers: require Federal agencies to protect the security and privacy of Government computer systems from the risks posed by peer-to-peer file sharing (H.R. 3159), H9319, H9320 [8OC], E1884 [24SE]

Intelligence services: alleged release of identity of CIA operative by Bush administration officials, H9202 [2OC]

———appointment of special counsel to investigate alleged release of identity of CIA operative by Bush administration officials, H9030, H9031 [30SE], H9037, H9082 [1OC], H9267, H9268, H9279 [7OC], H9364 [8OC], H9395 [15OC], E1947 [1OC], E1985 [7OC]

Presidential Records Act: establish procedures for the consideration of claims of constitutionality based privilege against disclosure of Presidential records (H.R. 1493), E597 [27MR]

Remarks in Senate

Bush, President: executive order blocking release of certain classified information, S4547 [31MR]

———urge release of information on sources of foreign support for terrorist attacks on World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA, S13350-S13352 [28OC], S13431-S13435 [29OC]

Congress: declassification of report from the joint inquiry into intelligence community before and after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, S4547 [31MR]

Federal employees: clarify disclosures of information protected from prohibited personnel practices and require a statement of nondisclosure policies (S. 1229), S7602, S7636-S7643 [10JN]

———clarify disclosures of information protected from prohibited personnel practices and require a statement of nondisclosure policies (S. 1358), S8749-S8756 [26JN]

Intelligence services: alleged release of identity of CIA operative by Bush administration officials, S12486-S12488 [14OC], S12993, S12994 [22OC]

———appointment of special counsel to investigate alleged release of identity of CIA operative by Bush administration officials, S12130, S12131 [29SE], S12154-S12166, S12171, S12172 [30SE], S12216, S12217, S12220, S12268, S12269 [1OC], S12309-S12311 [2OC], S12430-S12432 [3OC], S12661-S12667 [16OC]

———Bush administration treatment of individuals questioning validity of pre-war analysis concerning rationale for use of Armed Forces in Iraq, S9667-S9671 [22JY]

Presidential Records Act: establish procedures for the consideration of claims of constitutionality based privilege against disclosure of Presidential records (S. 1517), S10639 [31JY]

Terrorism: allow access and handling by State and local government personnel of classified information to facilitate preparation and response to terrorist attacks, S9831, S9832 [24JY]

Reports

People's Republic of China Intelligence Collection Efforts: FBI, E2002 [8OC]

Recommendations From the Joint Inquiry Into Intelligence Community Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001, S4548-S4551 [31MR]

Reports filed

Government Network Security Act: Committee on Government Reform (House) (H.R. 3159) (H. Rept. 108-305), H9281 [7OC]

———Committee on Governmental Affairs (Senate) (H.R. 3159), S14334 [10NO]

Texts of

H.R. 3159, Government Network Security Act, H9319 [8OC]

S. 1229, Federal Employee Protection of Disclosures Act, S7637 [10JN]

S. 1358, Federal Employee Protection of Disclosures Act, S8749-S8751 [26JN]

S. 1517, establish procedures for the consideration of claims of constitutionality based privilege against disclosure of Presidential records, S10639 [31JY]