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The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee wants new measures to clamp down on special exemptions that federal agencies are using to avoid disclosing information to the public under the Freedom of Information Act.
A public interest group is trying to use the Freedom of Information Act to crack more than three decades of secrecy surrounding how the government deals with wrongdoing by intelligence agencies.
The National Archives appointed a veteran open government advocate Wednesday to be the first Freedom of Information Act ombudsman, empowered to mediate disputes between people who request data and the agencies that have it.
President Barack Obama is promising to reinvigorate the Freedom of Information Act by opening more of the government's filing cabinets without a fight. It can't happen soon enough for the people awaiting replies to more than 150,000 requests for information.
If information were a river, the FBI would be a dam.
The Supreme Court has rejected limits on Freedom of Information Act lawsuits that seek the same information as earlier legal actions.
Despite ordering improvements more than two years ago, President Bush has barely made a dent in the huge backlog of unanswered requests under the Freedom of Information Act.
The Bush administration has violated Americans' basic human rights by blocking access to information and creating more government secrets than at any other time in U.S. history, former President Carter said Wednesday.
Congress on Tuesday struck back at the Bush administration's trend toward secrecy since the 2001 terrorist attacks, passing legislation to toughen the Freedom of Information Act and increasing penalties on agencies that don't comply.
Reversing a trend toward secrecy, federal agencies would have to be more responsive to Freedom of Information Act requests under legislation approved by the Senate Friday.
Two Associated Press journalists sued Arkansas officials Friday for allegedly violating the state's Freedom of Information Act by withholding information about which government computers were used to edit entries on Wikipedia.
Opening a new front in the Bush administration's battle to keep its records confidential, the Justice Department is contending that the White House Office of Administration is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act.
Previously public intelligence documents, some more than 50 years old, have been sealed under a secret agreement between the National Archives and three federal agencies, according to records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
Going After HillaryIf she had been prepared for the driver's-license question, as she should have been, she might have pointed out that seven states now issue licenses regardless of immigration status, that doing so actually improves security with respect to terrorism (because applicants must pro …
OpenTheGovernment.org - Secrecy Report Card 2007WASHINGTON, Sep. 1 -- Government secrecy saw further expansion last year despite growing public concern, according to a report released today by a coalition of open government advocates.
National Security Archive Sues White House to Recover 5 Million missing E-MailsThe National Security Archive yesterday sued the White House seeking the recovery and preservation of more than 5 million White House e-mail messages that were apparently deleted from White House computers between March 2003 and October 2005.
Pentagon to Get Rid of TALON Intel SoftwareThe Defense Department's recent announcement that it would end a controversial and possibly useless domestic intelligence reporting method but it left in place the technology DOD uses to process and hold a broad range of digital counterterrorism data, according to sources and b …
Help EFF Examine Once-Secret FBI DocsI got this via BoingBoing. Some of us had written a few months ago about government documents being released and bloggers being able to go through them. This article will provide you with downloads about Patriot Act abuses. If you find anything interesting, post it here!
Bush's Secret Campaign To Deny Global Warming RevealedEarlier this year, the world's top climate scientists released a definitive report on global warming. It is now "unequivocal," they concluded, that the planet is heating up. Bush no likey.
New bill to give bloggers same shield law protection as journalistsThe House of Representatives has amended the Free Flow of Information Act of 2007 to include provisions to protect bloggers from being required to divulge their sources under certain situations in the same way as journalists.
AP: 1M archived pages removed post-9/11This article is dizzying to say the least. I paused several times reading it considering the impact of whats being alleged.
The fascist oil warsFascist Japan was forced to kill for oil and Corporate America is willingly doing the same, leading up to Professor Dove's (supposedly her real name) speculation, pending freedom of informaiton, on "the relationship between the bombing in Vietnam and subsequent American success i …
Which secret Govt Documents will be Declassified on Dec 31?So what can we expect to learn when these pages become accessible to the public? We're not talking about small secrets here.
Ruling: Schools must archive eMailWith more school district business being conducted online now than ever before, school technology leaders should know about new rules flowing from a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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