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Tuesday, 13th January 2009

U.S.: Information Security Oversight Office Releases FY 2008 Annual Report to the President

From the News Release:

The Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) announced today that it has released its Report to the President for Fiscal Year 2008.

The Report profiles data about the Government-wide security classification program during Fiscal Year 2008.

Highlights from the Report

Classification

+ Executive branch agencies reported 4,109 original classification authorities.

+ Agencies reported using the ten-year-or-less declassification instruction for 58 percent of original classification decisions.

+ Executive branch agencies reported 23,217,557 derivative classification decisions.

+ Agencies reported 23,421,098 combined classification decisions.

+ Sixty-seven percent of the classification guides reported as being currently in use had not been updated within the past five years as required by E.O. 12958, as amended.


Declassification

+ Under automatic declassification and systematic declassification review, agencies declassified 31,443,552 pages of historically valuable records.

+ There are an estimated 51 million pages of records containing the equities of multiple agencies that require review by December 31, 2009. ISOO is not confident agencies will meet this deadline.

+ Agencies received 8,264 initial mandatory declassification review requests, the highest ever reported.

+ Under mandatory review, agencies declassified 190,291 pages in their entirety, declassified 50,219 pages in part, and retained classification of 20,774 pages in their entirety.

+ Agencies reported carrying over 5,843 initial mandatory declassification review requests into FY 2009.

+ Agencies received 196 mandatory declassification review appeals and processed 178 appeals, the largest number of appeals processed in a single fiscal year.

+ On appeal, agencies declassified 1,189 pages in their entirety, 1,501 pages in part, and retained classification of 3,782 pages in their entirety.

Direct to Full Text Report (28 pages; PDF)

Source: NARA


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