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Unlocking the Nuclear Vault
Since the National Security Archive’s founding, we have been researching and requesting the declassification of US government records about nuclear crises, nuclear proliferation, and the role of...
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(Updated Jan 4, 2009) Obama Executive Order on Classification: Reflects...
(UPDATED January 4, 2009) By now you may have heard that President Obama this week issued a new Executive Order governing Classified National Security Information. Elsewhere details have been reported...
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Document Friday: “Released in a Sanitized Form”… With a Twist.
Few things break a FOIA requester’s heart like tearing open an envelope from the CIA, seeing that they’ve released the document you requested, beginning to read it, and realizing that it’s been so...
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Does the Bulgarian Prime Minister Always Pay His Own Way?
The Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Boiko Borisov, trained to be a firefighter, served as bodyguard to the former king, and is a karate expert. According to the Prime Minister’s Office, he also has not...
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Document Friday: wikileaks, Raw Intel, and the Rise of the Taliban.
What a week its been for us document hounds!! The dust is still settling from the wikileaks dump of over 70,000 raw, uncensored US military intelligence reports from Afghanistan. They have certainly...
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FRINFORMSUM: 7/12/2011
The political tension created by the debt ceiling negotiations could victimize the U.S. economy, but it appears to have already damaged President Obama’s pledge of increased transparency at the White...
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FRINFORMSUM 10/27/2011
The big news in the freedom of information community this week was the proposed Department of Justice FOIA rule that would allow agencies to exclude documents from release when they determine that...
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FRINFORMSUM 1/17/2012
Last week the Environmental Protection Agency publicly released, for the first time, greenhouse gas data for 2010. One of the most interesting features of this release is an online tool that shows the...
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