The selective declassification of this memorandum -- but not the one drafted by Democrats on the committee – is an indicator of bad faith on open government, not a commitment to fully informing the public about how surveillance is used, abused or authorized in U.S. government.
Continue readingAfter MuckRock FOIA lawsuit, CIA publishes declassified documents online
“The CIA is made up of American citizens just like you. The people that I work with, we believe that we hold these records in trust for the American people. When their sensitivity attenuates over time, we feel we have a responsibility so the American people can judge them for themselves. It’s important that we put these source documents online.”- Joseph Lambert
Continue readingHow should history measure the Obama administration’s record on transparency?
Over the past seven years, we have both acknowledged this administration’s progress on open government and decried its failures.
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: Corruption currents, “pop-up PACs” and “factivism”
TOP STORY: Judge Thomas F. Hogan, the chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, rejected a legal challenge to rules... View Article
Continue readingTransparency Takes a Hit in CIA Budget Cuts
As part of recent sequestration cuts, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has closed its Historical Collections Division, which had been... View Article
Continue readingUsing Technology To Assist Declassification
by Sunlight Foundation policy intern Melanie Buck The role technology can play in streamlining the declassification process was the topic... View Article
Continue readingDeclassification of Historical Congressional Records
Our summer intern, Mike Liu, wrote this fantastic summary of a hearing on the declassification of historical congressional records that... View Article
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