Unredacted (Blog)

Unredacted is a platform for breaking news and discussion of secrecy, government transparency, FOIA, and the international right to know.

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Did Melania Trump Use Personal Email for Government Business? FRINFORMSUM 9/4/2020
Declassification at the Pentagon II: More Silly Secrecy
New Film Uses Archive Documents to Help Re-Examine Mosaddeq’s Overthrow, and More: FRINFORMSUM 8/21/2020
Declassification at the Pentagon: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
GSA Hides Trump Transition Meeting Notes with FOIA’s Ex. 5, New DHS Guidance Expands Surveillance of Social Justice Protesters, and More: FRINFORMSUM 7/30/2020
New Digital National Security Archive Collection Publishes Thousands of Declassified Nixon and Ford President’s Daily Briefs
Judge Grants DOJ Extension in FOIA Suit for Mueller Report, FOIA Wins Release of COVID Data, ICE Gets “Security Agency” Designation, and More: FRINFORMSUM 7/16/2020
OIP Report Misleadingly Touts a Government-Wide FOIA Release Rate of 94.4%, Continued Surveillance of Black Lives Matter, and More: FRINFORMSUM 6/4/2020
OMB’s Proposed FOIA Fee Guideline Revisions Don’t Go Far Enough, State Department Historical Advisory Report Slams DoD Performance Again, and More: FRINFORMSUM 5/8/2020
CIA Spymaster Frank Anderson, 1942 – 2020
Fighting Forever Secrets, COVID-19 and FOIA, and More: FRINFORMSUM 4/2/2020
Sunshine Week Round-Up, Ways to Strengthen the Presidential Records Act, COVID-19 Transparency Resources, and More: FRINFORMSUM 3/20/2020
SunshineWeek Special: NARA’s Oldest FOIA Request- At 26 Years Old- Is About to Get Kicked Off Its Parent’s Insurance
Judge Calls on Congress to Fix PRA Loopholes, FOIA Discredits Eric Trump’s Claim that Secret Service Stays at Trump Properties for Free, and More: FRINFORMSUM 2/21/2020
Border Agency Gets OK to Hide Previously Public Info from FOIA, and Much More: FRINFORMSUM 2/6/2020
ICE, Initially Citing No FOIA Exemption, Wrongly Denied Immigration Lawyers Access to their Clients’ A-Files: FRINFORMSUM 1/23/2020
Iran-U.S. Relations – Assessing the Future by Reviewing the Past
Unredacted Ukraine Emails Show FOIA Exemption 5 Abuse, Court Rules Contractor Diversity Data Can’t be Hidden by Exemption 4, and More: FRINFORMSUM 1/13/2020
Rumsfeld Memos Won by NSArchive Play Key Role in “The Afghanistan Papers”: FRINFORMSUM 12/13/19
New Digital National Security Archive Document Collection Covers U.S. Policy toward Iran from 1978-2015