Help wanted: classification czar needed for oversight of national security secrecy system
http://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2016/03/help-wanted-isoo/ The government is looking for a person to oversee, and perhaps sometimes to overrule, classification decisions made throughout the Executive Branch. A job opening <https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/430180100> for the position of Director of the Information Security Oversight Office <http://www.archives.gov/isoo/> (ISOO) was announced in *USA Jobs* <https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/430180100> last week. The ISOO director is appointed by the Archivist of the United States, since ISOO is housed at the National Archives. But ISOO takes policy direction <http://www.archives.gov/isoo/> from the National Security Council, and the director’s authority over classification and declassification policy extends throughout the executive branch. The previous ISOO director <https://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2016/01/isoo-fitzpatrick/>, John P. Fitzpatrick, left for the National Security Council in January. Read on at FAS: http://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2016/03/help-wanted-isoo/ -- Veritas aequitas liberabit vos Veri universum vici That 1 Archive <http://that1archive.neocities.org/> @NatSecGeek <https://twitter.com/NatSecGeek>
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Michael Best