Groups including the National Security Archive have clashed with the
agency over its FOIA policies.
Last year, the archive gave the CIA its prize for the agency with the
worst FOIA record.
Called the "Rosemary Award," it's named after President Nixon's
secretary, Rosemary Woods, who erased 18 minutes of a key Watergate
conversation on the White House tapes.
From The Associated Press, 5/17/07:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070517/ap_on_go_co/cia_sept_11_probe
Senators want CIA to release 9/11 report
By KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON -
A bipartisan group of senators is pushing legislation that would force
the CIA to release an inspector general's report on the terrorist
attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The CIA has spent more than 20 months weighing requests under the
Freedom of Information Act for its internal investigation of the
attacks but has yet to release any portion of it.
The agency is the only federal office involved in counterterrorism
operations that has not made at least a version of its internal 9/11
investigation public.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and two other intelligence committee leaders —
chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., and senior Republican Kit Bond of
Missouri — are pushing legislation that would require the agency to
declassify the executive summary of the review within one month and
submit a report to Congress explaining why any material was withheld.
The provision has been approved by the Senate twice, but never made
into law.
In an interview, Wyden said he is also considering whether to link the
report's release to his acceptance of President Bush's nominations for
national security positions.
"It's amazing the efforts the administration is going to stonewall
this," Wyden said.
"The American people have a right to know what the Central
Intelligence Agency was doing in those critical months before 9/11....
I am going to bulldog this until the public gets it."
Completed in June 2005, the inspector general's report examined the
personal responsibility of individuals at the CIA before and after the
attacks.
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