Format Note: If you cannot easily read the text below, or you prefer to receive Secrecy News in another format, please reply to this email to let us know. SECRECY NEWS from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2012, Issue No. 44 May 9, 2012 Secrecy News Blog: http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/ ** PENTAGON MOVES TO COMBAT THE "INSIDER THREAT" ** WHAT IS NATIONAL SECURITY "PARTNERSHIP"? AND MORE FROM CRS PENTAGON MOVES TO COMBAT THE "INSIDER THREAT" The Department of Defense has issued a new Instruction defining its response to the "insider threat" from Department personnel who engage in unauthorized disclosures of information or other activities deemed harmful to national security. The new Instruction assigns responsibilities and authorities for systematically detecting "anomalous" employee behavior that may be an indication of an insider threat. An insider threat is defined as "A person with authorized access, who uses that access, wittingly or unwittingly, to harm national security interests or national security through unauthorized disclosure, data modification, espionage, terrorism, or kinetic actions resulting in loss or degradation of resources or capabilities." A subset of the insider threat is the counterintelligence (CI) insider threat, which refers to an authorized individual who uses his access on behalf of a "foreign intelligence entity." A foreign intelligence entity (FIE) is "Any known or suspected foreign organization, person, or group (public, private, or governmental) that conducts intelligence activities to acquire U.S. information, blocks or impairs U.S. intelligence collection, influences U.S. policy, or disrupts U.S. systems and programs." All heads of DoD components are now instructed to "implement CI insider threat initiatives to identify DoD-affiliated personnel suspected of or actually compromising DoD information on behalf of an FIE." All military departments are expected to "conduct anomaly-based detection activities." See "Countering Espionage, International Terrorism, and the Counterintelligence (CI) Insider Threat," DoD Instruction 5240.26, May 4, 2012: http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/dod/i5240_26.pdf The new Instruction complies with a congressional mandate in the FY2012 defense authorization act that was passed last year in response to the WikiLeaks disclosures. WHAT IS NATIONAL SECURITY "PARTNERSHIP"? AND MORE FROM CRS New and updated reports from the Congressional Research Service that Congress has not made publicly available include the following. In Brief: Clarifying the Concept of "Partnership" in National Security, May 4, 2012: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R42516.pdf U.S. Nuclear Cooperation With India: Issues for Congress, May 7, 2012: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/RL33016.pdf Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress, May 4, 2012: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33436.pdf U.S. Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage, May 3, 2012: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42513.pdf Interest Rates on Subsidized Stafford Loans to Undergraduate Students, May 4, 2012: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42515.pdf Racial Profiling: Legal and Constitutional Issues, April 16, 2012: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL31130.pdf Trade Primer: Qs and As on Trade Concepts, Performance, and Policy, April 16, 2012: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33944.pdf Judicial Activity Concerning Enemy Combatant Detainees: Major Court Rulings, April 6, 2012: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R41156.pdf _______________________________________________ Secrecy News is written by Steven Aftergood and published by the Federation of American Scientists. The Secrecy News Blog is at: http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/ To SUBSCRIBE to Secrecy News, go to: http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/secrecy/subscribe.html To UNSUBSCRIBE, go to http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/secrecy/unsubscribe.html OR email your request to saftergood@fas.org Secrecy News is archived at: http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/secrecy/index.html Support the FAS Project on Government Secrecy with a donation: http://www.fas.org/member/donate_today.html _______________________ Steven Aftergood Project on Government Secrecy Federation of American Scientists web: www.fas.org/sgp/index.html email: saftergood@fas.org voice: (202) 454-4691 twitter: @saftergood ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE