On their own terms
Subtitle: a lexicon with emphasis on information-related terms produced by the U.S. federal government
By: Susan L. Maret
Contributors: Federation of American Scientists; Project on Government Secrecy (Federation of American Scientists)
Publisher: Federation of American Scientists
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, DC]
Language: eng
Subjects: Terminology; Politics and government; Indexes
Description: ON Their Own Terms is a lexicon of information-rich terms created by the U.S. legislative, regulatory, and policy process, and routinized by various branches of the U.S. government. These terms represent a virtual seed catalog to federal informationally-driven procedures, policies, and practices involving amoung matters, the information life cycle, record keeping, ownership over information, collection and analysis of intelligence information, security classification categories and markings, censorship, citizen right-to-know, deception, propaganda, secrecy, technology, surveillance, threat, and warfare.

"Helps...to comprehend the vocabulary of government information policy and to discover its genealogical roots in official documents."
Notes: Title from PDF caption (viewed Nov. 3, 2006).

Mode of access: World Wide Web.