Obama's New Executive Order on CUI

Larkin Reynolds
Saturday, November 6, 2010, 6:18 PM
On Thursday, the White House issued a new executive order to establish a uniform policy for government treatment of “controlled unclassified information” (CUI).

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On Thursday, the White House issued a new executive order to establish a uniform policy for government treatment of “controlled unclassified information” (CUI).  The order defines CUI as "information that requires safeguarding or dissemination controls pursuant to and consistent with law, regulations, and Government-wide policies, excluding information that is classified under Executive Order 13526 of December 29, 2009, or the Atomic Energy Act, as amended." Steven Aftergood has a posted a great summary of both the order and some of the deliberations behind its issuance.

Larkin Reynolds is an associate at a D.C. law firm and was a legal fellow at Brookings from 2010 to 2011. Larkin holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she served as a founding editor of the Harvard National Security Journal and interned with the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps, and the National Security Division of the Department of Justice. She also has a B.A. in international relations from New York University.

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