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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Fact-Checking Haspel’s Nomination Hearing Against the Declassified Record: FRINFORMSUM 5/10/2018
Mulvaney Moves to Hide Important Consumer Complaint Database, DOD Again Tries for New FOIA Exemption, and More: FRINFORMSUM 5/3/2018
Gina Haspel’s CIA Torture File, Potential Changes to DOD’s MDR Process, and More: FRINFORMSUM 4/26/2018
FOIA Federal Advisory Committee Recs Will Help Agency FOIA Shops Pass “Common-Sense Test”: FRINFORMSUM 4/19/2018
John Moss and the Roots of the Freedom of Information Act: Worldwide Implications
Transcripts of intercepted cell phones open new lines of investigation in Ayotzinapa case
FOIA Investigation Reveals Steep Rise in Military Aviation Crashes: FRINFORMSUM 4/12/2018
Judge Finds No Legal Basis for Commerce’s Exorbitant FOIA Fees, Declassified US Docs on Rios Montt, and More: FRINFOMRUSM 4/5/2018
Why We File: Perspectives from a FOIA Requester
NARA Unauthorized Destruction Chart Highlights Troubling Pattern of Disappearing Records and Encrypted Messaging Apps: FRINFORMSUM 3/29/2018
Disappearing Messaging Apps Are Subject of Ethics Training Thanks to PRA Suit: FRINFORMSUM 3/22/2018
CIA Caught Between Operational Security and Analytical Quality In 1953 Iran Coup Planning
Sen. Grassley Sums-Up Sunshine Week Sentiment, Says FOIA Posting Delays Don’t “Meet the Common-Sense Test”: FRINFORMSUM 3/15/2018
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