New SSCI Chair Tries to Hide CIA Torture Report from FOIA, New Non-Binding...
Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), the new head of the Senate Intelligence Committee (SSCI) and staunch critic of the Committee’s classified CIA Torture Report compiled under Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA),...
View ArticleResponding to Attacks on FOIA Reform and H.R. 653
This morning the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s Subcommittee on Government Operations had its first hearing of the session(!) on “Ensuring Government Transparency Through FOIA...
View ArticleInformation Asymmetry and Obama’s Hacked Emails.
Last week CNN and the New York Times reported that the breach into the Department of State’s unclassified email systems had spread to the White House. While the server containing the President’s...
View ArticleArchive Director Tom Blanton’s Must-Read Testimony on the Administration’s...
This morning the Archive’s Executive Director, Tom Blanton, is testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee for its hearing on “Ensuring an Informed Citizenry: Examining the Administration’s...
View ArticleMeaning of “Discretionary” Lost on Some FOIA Processors, Section 215 Sunset...
The State Department’s use of FOIA’s discretionary b5 exemption – that allows agencies to withhold any “interagency or intra-agency communication,” as well as any agency-claimed “draft,” from the...
View ArticleDOJ Tells Archivist Not to Do His Job; Govt Argues OLC Memos both...
The Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014 gives the Archivist of the United States the binding legal authority to determine whether or not something constitutes a federal record. This...
View ArticleDeclassified Docs Show Reagan and H.W. Bush Sought Strong American Leadership...
The National Security Archive’s latest posting shows that Republican presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush actively promoted measures to combat climate change in the 1980s in connection with...
View ArticleArchive’s Nomination of DOE for FOILIES Award for Egregious B5 Invocation...
The National Security Archive nominated one especially bad FOIA response from the Energy Department for the second-annual FOILIES Awards – presented for the most extraordinary and egregious FOIA...
View ArticleExemption 5 FOIA Reform Would Not Have Chilling Effect on Agency...
A recent Congressional Research Service (CRS) report provides a helpful side-by-side comparison of the FOIA reform bills currently in the House and the Senate (the National Security Archive’s analysis...
View ArticleFOIA Reform Adopted after Years-Long Battle
Ed. note: This article has been crossposted from FreedomInfo.org By Toby McIntosh Reforms are coming to the US Freedom of Information Act. The House on June 13 approved a Senate bill to amend FOIA and...
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