Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Little Oversight...
...Requires that officials, if challenged, be able to explain to a new watchdog agency, the Information Security Oversight Office, or to a court the reason a document if not kept classified could harm national security...
...SECRET. In the past, officials have put their most sensitive documents in these nameless cubbyholes, keeping them out of the public eye indefinitely. No one knows how many of them exist. But from now on, department heads will have to justify these ultrasecret classifications in writing to the Oversight Office. Unless renewed, they will expire in five years...
...cites the report by HEW'S inspector general that the department wastes $6 billion annually. To try to straighten out the programs and cut down the waste, Califano set up a watchdog bureau similar to the President's Office of Management and Budget. The office has department-wide oversight of budgeting, planning, procurement, and reorganization. Though HEW deals with human beings and not hardware, Califano wants to quantify program goals as much as possible. He has set up targets for reducing waste and improving services and is keeping a monthly watch on the progress that is being made. The campaign...
...planning to deal directly with the community, via a special community relations officer, is still under discussion, Wyatt says. Michael Brewer, director of government relations, expects that his office will continue to field the complaints and community concerns, as it has done over the years. Brewer handled the oversight at 58 Garfield St., and says that similar incidents have occurred in the past, and in all likelihood will occur on occasion again in the future...