Journalist Sues NSA For Keeping Keith Alexander's Financial History Secret 200
Daniel_Stuckey writes Now the NSA has yet another dilemma on its hands: Investigative journalist Jason Leopold is suing the agency for denying him the release of financial disclosure statements attributable to its former director. According to a report by Bloomberg, prospective clients of Alexander's, namely large banks, will be billed $1 million a month for his cyber-consulting services. Recode.net quipped that for an extra million, Alexander would show them the back door (state-installed spyware mechanisms) that the NSA put in consumer routers.
Re:What is the story here (Score:1, Informative)
He's suing to get them to release what should be public information. That in no way requires him to be "damaged" in some way.
Re:If true. If. (Score:3, Informative)
http://whatthefuckhasobamadone... [whatthefuc...esofar.com]
Ummm.. (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.militaryfactory.com... [militaryfactory.com]
Military pay grades are in the public record. Many sites (the above is just one) publish them.
Form 278 [Re:What is the story here ] (Score:5, Informative)
Typically financial disclosures, such as the ones covered by OGE Form 450 [oge.gov] (Confidential Financial Disclosure Report), are not public information and are exempted from FOIA requests
The form in question isn't the 450, which is confidential (hence its name). It's form 278, "Public Financial Disclosure", which is public (hence its name.
From http://www.oge.gov/Financial-D... [oge.gov]
Public Financial Disclosure
The Ethics in Government Act of 1978, as amended, requires senior officials in the executive, legislative and judicial branches to file public reports of their finances as well as other interests outside the Government. The statute and the U.S. Office of Government Ethics's (OGE) regulations specify which officials in the executive branch file an OGE Form 278. Unlike confidential financial statements filed by some mid-level employees, the OGE 278 is available to the public. Reviewing officials within each agency certify and maintain these reports. Agencies do, however, forward reports of Presidential appointees confirmed by the Senate and certain other reports to OGE for additional review and certification.