Classification
of Government Information in the Interest of National Security
President
Bush's Executive Order on Safeguarding Classified Information, EO 12958
as amended by EO 13292, March 25, 2003 (This Executive Order sets
forth the procedures and substantive requirements for classifying information
in the interest of national security)
White
House Background Briefing on President Bush's Executive Order on Safeguarding
Classified Information, March 25, 2003
Information
Security Oversight Office (ISOO), National Archives and Records Administration,
Classified National Security Information Directive No. 1, 68 Fed. Reg.
183 (Sept. 22, 2003) (interpretive guidance for implementing Executive
Order 12958 as amended by EO 13292)
President
Clinton's Executive Order on National Security Information, EO 12958,
April 17, 1995
Interagency
Security Classification Appeals Panel ("ISCAP") (ISCAP
decides appeals of classification challenges under EO 12958, approves,
denies or amends agency exemptions from automatic declassification,
and decides mandatory declassification review appeals by parties whose
requests for declassification have been denied at the agency level)
Federation
of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy Web Site (one
of the best sources for information on classification policy and related
materials)