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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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
Mexican Community Seeks Help in Mining Conflict
Glomar Denial Shot Down in the Courts Again, AG Barr Slams FOIA “Regime” at Federalist Society Event, and More: FRINFORMSUM 11/21/2019
Archive, CREW, Historians Sue Pompeo and the State Department over Failure to Create Records, and More: FRINFORMSUM 11/8/2019
EPA Tries to Blame Bad FOIA Regs on Advisory Committee Recommendation: FRINFORMSUM 11/1/2019
War Stories and Advice from the Archive’s Outgoing FOIA Director
ISOO’s FY 2018 Classification Report Continues to Warn of Outdated System, but Lacks Key, Previously-Reported Data: FRINFORMSUM 10/17/2019
The Wilson Ramos Kidnapping Declassified –AND FULLY UNREDACTED