[Politech] Feds hope to censor unclassified congressional testimony [fs]

From: Declan McCullagh (declan@private)
Date: Sun Feb 08 2004 - 22:12:43 PST

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    Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 10:57:49 -0500
    From: Majstoll@private
    To: edward@private
    Cc: bill@private, gnu@private, declan@private, Majstoll@private,
             lebos123@private, ellis84@private
    Subject: US Passport Req. changed; TSA wants public testimoney deleted from 
    press records
    
    See:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17599-2004Feb5.html
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    Media Asked to Delete Security Testimony
    
    The Transportation Security Administration has asked the news media to 
    delete from their archives two pages of unclassified congressional 
    testimony from a public hearing in November on airport security.
    
    
    
    The Federal Document Clearing House (FDCH), which provides transcripts of 
    hearings to news organizations and others, agreed to delete the testimony, 
    in which a government contractor described security problems at the 
    Rochester, N.Y., airport, according to an article posted on the 
    Congressional Quarterly Web site.
    
    The FDCH passed the agency's request on to its subscribers, including 
    Congressional Quarterly, which declined to remove the contractor's remarks, 
    the CQ article said. A CQ official said something that had been on the Web 
    site that long would have been downloaded many times, "so what we do with 
    it is actually of little consequence."
    
    A TSA lawyer said the testimony, about how small handguns were easily 
    smuggled past airport screeners, included "sensitive security information."
    
    
    • Parents seeking a passport on behalf of any child under age 14 now must 
    bring the child with them to passport offices to apply, the State 
    Department said.
    Parents previously were not routinely required to bring a child when 
    applying for the child's passport, the department said. The new measure is 
    designed to enhance the accurate identification of passport applicants and 
    aid in preventing international child abduction and trafficking.
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