independently assisting oversight of highly classified programs

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Sun Jan 19 19:56:48 PST 2014


On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Philip Shaw <wahspilihp at gmail.com> wrote:
> do state legislatures have an equivalent of parliamentary privilege

That's in the first link I sent.

> and if so does it protect state legislators from federal law?

Afaik, states / state legislatures are not bound to protect
classified fed secrets that just appear on their doorstep, only
their own... they're separate entities. But with LEA/FOUO
there are lots of data sharing memorandums and general enabling
law between state and fed, ie: state driver bureaus, criminal records.
geo resources, etc. Unlikely outside of such interagency use that fed
top secrets would even make it to the state legislatures... largely
irrelevant to their interests unless it's about where to get good
Cuban cigars. All afaik, you'd have to research more.

Also: FAS secrecy blog, US national archives, foia, etc.



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