Word: shattuck
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...Shattuck said the President wields excessive independence in authorizing covert operations, adding that "inherent presidential powers," executive prerogatives not specifically mandated in the Constitution, are "eating away at the foundations of constitutional government...
...panel, which also included Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs John Shattuck and Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson, was critical of past covert operations in Iran, Nicaragua and Panama...
...Shattuck's March 31 report calls on the next President to "signal a shift in policy" by issuing an executive order within its first 100 days loosening the classification and export control strictures. The 41 st President's agenda should be premised on "principles that justify the revision of the existing system of controls," the report says...
...free flow of information and ideas is vital to the fabric of our national life," the Shattuck report concludes. "Government policy aimed at broadly controlling the communication of information and ideas is ultimately self-defeating and may soon become irreparably damaging unless it is substantially revised by the next President...
However, education officials say they recognize that the question of government classification of some scientific research is unavoidable and they say the fight will go on. "I'm not certain that we're going to see a great rollback in secrecy restrictions," Shattuck said...