Press release: “The first-ever government-wide audit of the ways that federal agencies mark and protect information that is unclassified but sensitive for security reasons has found 28 different and uncoordinated policies, none of which include effective oversight or monitoring of how many records are marked and withheld, by whom, or for how long. The audit began in February 2005 with Freedom of Information requests from the National Security Archive at George Washington University, to more than 40 agencies, for copies of their policies and guidelines on “sensitive unclassified information.”

Pseudo-Secrets: A Freedom of Information Audit of the U.S. Government’s Policies on Sensitive Unclassified Information, Entire Report in PDF

Executive Summary

Recommendations

Methodology

Appendix 1 – Chart: Card Memorandum FOIA Requests, Summary of Agency Processing

Appendix 2 – Chart: Impact of Card Memorandum, By Agency

Appendix 3 – Chart: Sensitive Unclassified Information FOIA Requests, Summary of Agency Processing

Appendix 4 – Chart: Sensitive Unclassified Information, Policies by Agency

Appendix 5 – Chart: Sensitive Unclassified Information, Distinct Policies

Appendix 6 – Glossary of Acronyms

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