"Last year the NRO celebrated its 50th anniversary, and we announced the declassification of two NRO systems, Gambit and Hexagon, which were America's eyes in space and the most sophisticated satellites of their time," NRO director Air Force Gen. (Ret).
The Justice Department has been collecting evidence concerning Mr. Pinochet and has prevented the declassification of numerous documents on the Letelier-Moffitt killing that it believes useful to its case.
In his first public comments in 10 days about the NSA disclosures, Obama also said he had set an oversight board made up of independent citizens and the ordered the declassification of documents relating to surveillance to allow the public to see the broader context.
Horman's organisation, the Charles Horman Truth Foundation, will also celebrate lawyers and officials who brought about the declassification of US documents related to the coup in the presence of Joan Jara, the British widow of the murdered Chilean folksinger Víctor Jara.
In May 2011, before the Senate was, again, scheduled to vote to reauthorize the Patriot Act, Senators Wyden and Udall, again, called for the declassification of the administration's secret interpretation of Section 215.
In the physical sciences American researchers have argued for years with the government over the declassification of documents and the application of export-control restrictions particularly in the area of cryptography.
President Donald Trump on Friday approved the declassification of the memo, a three-and-a-half-page document that Trump supporters claimed shows FBI bias against the president in the probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
A White House spokesman, Sean McCormack, said that "to my knowledge there was no coordination between Congressional Republicans and the White House on the request for the declassification of the documents".
This week, I authorized the declassification of this action, and the deaths of three other Americans in drone strikes, to facilitate transparency and debate on this issue and to dismiss some of the more outlandish claims that have been made.
