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History Coalition Warns of Critical Needs at National Archives

Washington, D.C., July 23, 2024 - A major report…

Jul 22, 2024

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Tom Blanton Wants to Know Our Government's Secrets

Washingtonian Magazine Profiles National Security Archive

Jun 28, 2024

U.S. National Archives’ 2025 Budget Request Threatens Mission Failure

Mar 15, 2024

Archive Director Testifies to U.S. Senate on Over-classification

Mar 23, 2023

Key Agencies Missing from Central Freedom of Information Act Portal

Mar 9, 2023

Inter-American Court Orders Opening of Military Archives

Jan 24, 2023

Censored by CIAin 2022 v. Published in 2021

The Public Document a Federal Judge and the CIA Don’t Want You to See

Oct 4, 2022

Haspel Personally Observed CIA Waterboarding, Witness Testifies

Jun 23, 2022

The Capitol Riot: A Chronology

Jun 13, 2022

The Capitol Riot: Trump’s Shadow Call Log

Jun 9, 2022

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Featured FOIA Roundtable

In the more than 50 years that the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) has been on the books, it has helped revolutionize Americans’ understanding of how their government works in practice. But the agencies and departments of the executive branch that are covered by the FOIA have persistently attempted to thwart its effective implementation.

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Nate Jones stops by NPR's All Things Considered to discuss the thousands of Donald Rumsfeld "snowflakes" that were released in response to the Archive's FOIA lawsuit.

In the Media

More Than 10 Years Later, The Senate Torture Report Is Still Secret

The Intercept

Jun 27, 2024

Tom Blanton Wants to Know Our Government's Secrets

Washingtonian

Jun 25, 2024

DC Appeals Court Says CIA Can Continue To Withhold 35-Year-Old Memo Already Published By Another Gov’t Agency

Techdirt

Jun 14, 2024

Opinion | It’s no secret that the nation’s classification system is broken

The Washington Post

Feb 13, 2024

Q&A: National Security Archive policy director talks declassified Kissinger documents

The GW Hatchet

Dec 11, 2023

Featured Videos

FOIA 50th Anniversary - American History TV visits the National Security Archive to talk FOIA history with our director, Tom Blanton. Watch the informative and entertaining 11-minute clip here:

Man vs. FOIA - McClatchyDC talks with National Security Archive FOIA Project Director Nate Jones about the FOIA requesting process.

Why We File - 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.