Unredacted (Blog)

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

The latest entries are listed below. View the full blog here.

Forecast for Sunshine Week: Real, Structural Problems with FOIA Punctuated with Bright Spots and Reason for Optimism: FRINFORMSUM 3/8/2018
FOIA: A Colossus Under Assault
A Sunshine Week Primer on the Agencies Still Trying to Weaken FOIA: FRINFORMSUM 3/1/2018
How the Feds Responded to the Hawaii Missile False Alert, is Kushner’s Office subject to FOIA, and More: FRINFORMSUM 2/22/2018
Nixon, Thieu and the Bomb: CIA Report Sheds Light on Richard Nixon’s Madman Diplomacy
Is NARA Rubber-Stamping Potentially Damaging Records Retention Schedules? FRINFORMSUM 2/15/2018
9th Circuit Finds FBI Can Withhold Information on Surveillance of Muslim Communities: FRINFORMSUM: 2/8/2017
Behind the House Intelligence Committee’s Ability to Release “The Memo”
Secretary Carson on Alleged Ethics Violations: “They can FOIA everything, and they have been,” and “There’s nothing to find. It’s ridiculous.” FRINFORMSUM 2/1/2018
‘Homeland’ Sounds Too German and Other Takeaways from the First Tranche of Rumsfeld’s Snowflakes Release: FRINFORMSUM 1/25/2018
Presidential Records Act Lawsuit Targets White House’s Disappearing Messaging Apps: FRINFORMSUM 1/18/2018
Fermi, Reagan, and Trump
The FOIA Office is Not Siberia: FRINFORMSUM 1/11/2018
Defense Officials Seek Unprecedented Control over Historical Reports on Nuclear Weapons Stockpile
NSArchive’s “Outstanding Academic Title 2017”, FOIA Lawsuit Seeks Info on Travel Ban Enforcement, and More: FRINFORMSUM 1/4/2018
Video Won Through FOIA Shows AG Sessions Spar with DOJ Interns Over Marijuana, Gun Control: FRINFORMSUM 12/14/2017
The U.S. Has Way Too Many Secrets
FOIA’s Foreseeable Harm Standard Tested in Court: FRINFORMSUM 12/7/2017
“Bolsheviki appear to have control of everything here” moving “faster and faster towards – what?” US Diplomats’ and John Reed’s accounts of the 1917 Russian Revolution
FOIA Shows Texas Border Wall Could Bisect Retirement Community, Wildlife Preserves: FRINFORMSUM 11/16/2017