{"id":1447,"date":"2012-10-08T19:07:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T19:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2012-10-08T19:07:05","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T19:07:05","slug":"new-declassification-portal-at-the-national-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2012\/10\/08\/new-declassification-portal-at-the-national-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"New Declassification Portal at the National Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1449\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1449\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/files\/2012\/10\/visit-us-main-image.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1449 \" src=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/files\/2012\/10\/visit-us-main-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The National Archives Building in Washington D.C.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The National Archives has set up\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/declassification\/\">a new online portal<\/a> that provides an overview of declassification activity in and around the Archives, with input from the National Declassification Center, the Public Interest Declassification Board, the Presidential Libraries, and the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP).<\/p>\n<p>The new section on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/declassification\/iscap\/decisions.html\">ISCAP declassification decisions<\/a> is of particular interest, since it provides\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/declassification\/iscap\/decision-table.html\">links to the documents<\/a> that have been newly declassified at the direction of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/declassification\/iscap\/index.html\">ISCAP<\/a>, which receives appeals from the public for release of documents that agencies have declined to declassify.\u00a0 Documents declassified through the ISCAP process in the past year include excerpts of several Presidential Daily Briefs from the 1960s, intelligence reports on various topics, and several documents on strategic nuclear forces.<\/p>\n<p>The documents were posted in response to Section 5.3(b)(4) of President Obama\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/irp\/offdocs\/eo\/eo-13526.htm\">Executive Order 13526<\/a>, which required that the ISCAP \u201cappropriately inform senior agency officials and the public of final Panel decisions on appeals under sections 1.8 and 3.5 of this order.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The release of the latest collection of documents through ISCAP is commendable, and its publication\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/declassification\/iscap\/decision-table.html\">online<\/a> is more than welcome.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/blog\/secrecy\/2012\/10\/declass_portal.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Archives has set up\u00a0a new online portal that provides an overview of declassification activity in and around the Archives, with input from the National Declassification Center, the Public Interest Declassification Board, the Presidential Libraries, and the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP). 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