On their own terms

de Susan Maret

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."