The Central Intelligence Agency is attempting to prevent the Obama administration from releasing a May 2004 Inspector General's report describing and evaluating the agency's treatment of detainees and interrogation practices, according to today's Washington Post.  A redacted version of about 12 paragraphs of text was released in May 2008 as a result of an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit.  The Obama administration promised a review of the IG report last month after the ACLU appealed the decision in that case.

Today, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) announced the appointment of Miriam Nisbet as the director of the newly established Office of Government Information Services (OGIS).  This long-awaited appointment is welcome news.  OGIS is now a leap closer to coming into full operation.

Nisbet enters the position coming from UNESCO’s Information for All Program.  Nisbet served as the legislative counsel for the American Library Association from 1999-2007.  Prior to that, she was the Deputy Director of the Justice Department’s Office of Information Privacy.

Today, the Obama administration released a memo requiring reviews of overclassification and the current Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI)/ Sensitive but Unclassified (SBU) process.  The memo does not dictate any new procedures on how agencies must handle such designated material.  However, it does establish an interagency 90-day review process to advise the administration on actions it should take to advance on previous efforts to reform these problems.