The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

Featured Posting

Six Things You Didn’t Know About Watergate

Washington, D.C., May 27, 2021 – Nixon and Watergate represent one of those inexhaustible subjects about which there is always something new to be reported or written.

May 27, 2021

Previous Postings

The Capitol Riot: Documents You Should Read (Part 3)

May 4, 2021

“Still Interested” Letters Add Insult to Injury of Long-Ignored FOIA Requests

Mar 12, 2021

The Capitol Riot: Documents You Should Read (Part 2)

Mar 3, 2021

Lawsuit Saves Trump White House Records

Feb 11, 2021

Rumsfeld Lacked Intel on Who The Enemies Were Two Years After Afghanistan Invasion, Newly Published "Snowflakes" Show

Feb 1, 2021

Biden Pledges to Open White House Visitor Logs

Jan 20, 2021

The Capitol Riot: Documents You Should Read (Part 1)

Jan 13, 2021

Archive, Historians, CREW Sue White House, Seek to Preserve Presidential Records During the Transition

Dec 1, 2020

How President-Elect Biden Can Improve FOIA and Bolster the Presidential Records Act Against Future Abuse

Nov 17, 2020

In the Media

Opinion: Biden must hold government accountable — starting with his own

The Washington Post

Sep 12, 2021

Donald Rumsfeld’s Fog of Memos

The New York Times

Jul 3, 2021

Justice, Garland disappoint Trump critics with memo move

The Hill

May 26, 2021

Hicks raises prospect of defense cuts

Politico

Feb 3, 2021

Will Trump’s mishandling of records leave a hole in history?

Jan 17, 2021

Featured Videos

American History TV visits that National Security Archive to talk FOIA history with our director, Tom Blanton. Watch the informative and entertaining 11-minute clip here:

McClatchyDC talks with National Security Archive FOIA Project Director Nate Jones about the FOIA requesting process:

During celebration of the Sunshine Week 2018 Nate Jones talks to the Export Import Bank about the Freedom of Information Act from a requester's perspective.

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