All branches of the government have tightened their security policies. In
years past, the Internet would not have been considered a tool that a terrorist could use
to carry out harmful acts, but in today??™s world, the Internet is a major vehicle for anyone
(including terrorists) to gather information and recruit other terrorists.
Limiting information made available on the Internet is just one manifestation of the
tighter information security policies that are necessitated, at least in part, by the perception
that the Internet makes information broadly available for use or misuse. The Bush
administration has taken measures to change the way the government exposes information,
some of which have drawn harsh criticism. Roger Pilon, Vice President of Legal
Affairs at the Cato Institute, lashed out at one such measure: ???Every administration overclassifies
documents, but the Bush administration??™s penchant for secrecy has challenged
due process in the legislative branch by keeping secret the names of the terror suspects
held at Guantanamo Bay.???
According to the Report to the President from the Information Security Oversight
Office Summary for Fiscal Year 2005 Program Activities, over 14 million documents
were classified and over 29 million documents were declassified in 2005.
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