Secrecy News for 06/06/05: HPSCI CALLS FOR PROSECUTION OF LEAKS : "The Department of Justice should 'place a higher priority on investigating and prosecuting illegal disclosures of classified information,' the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) said in its new report on the 2006 Intelligence Authorization Act.

'Hundreds of 'leaks' have been reported to the Department over the past ten years, without a single indictment or prosecution,' the House Committee complained, echoing similar findings in the report of the Silberman-Robb WMD Commission.

The Committee, which opposed the 9-11 Commission's recommendation to reduce unnecessary secrecy by disclosing the size of the intelligence budget, was silent on overclassification. But it cited inter-agency information sharing as an issue requiring focused attention. 'Information 'ownership' must be a concept of the past, not the future.'"

(Via Secrecy News.)