Secrecy News: September 13, 2017
SECRECY NEWS From the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2017, Issue No. 66 September 13, 2017 Secrecy News Blog: https://fas.org/blogs/ secrecy/ ** NGA CHARTS NEW PATH IN CLASSIFICATION POLICY ** SYRIA'S CHEMICAL WEAPONS, & MORE FROM CRS NGA CHARTS NEW PATH IN CLASSIFICATION POLICY Changes in classification practices at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) are expected to yield improvements in the quality of national security classification decisions and to lead to reductions in classification at NGA as well as other defense and intelligence agencies. The most important innovation adopted by NGA is a requirement for a written justification for why each item of classified information needs to be protected, as well as how the information could be paraphrased or discussed in an unclassified manner. NGA said it has prepared a new classification guide that includes three types of "...