Trump is making it easier for the CIA to spy on Americans — yet again
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Reform Government Secrecy
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Deeper Dives on Secrecy
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The Pentagon Papers
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The Classified Catalog
FPF is tracking reports of the Trump administration’s unforeseen levels of secrecy.
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Boat strike death toll climbs, legal justification still hidden
Plus: U.S. embassies put diplomacy up for sale
Repression as a service
A manual for Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked on Jan. 30 via 404 Media. Let’s look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we’ve come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us.The app features gamified neighborhood maps, …
Sen. Wyden raises the alarm on potential CIA abuses
Plus: The State Department is purging its X accounts. That will only make diplomacy harder
Marco Rubio is out as archivist. His replacement will likely also flop
Plus: The Trump ‘library’ grift continues
Tulsi Gabbard’s hypocritical chokehold on whistleblowers
FPF FOIA shows the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has no credibility
Website for Afghanistan reconstruction oversight agency vanishes
Congress needs to get serious about body cameras. Here’s two ways it can
You can now FOIA Trump’s first-term records
Plus: Declassification board pushes for release of 9/11 records
FOIA shows DOJ rollback of media protections is based on a lie
Plus: Administration releases partial legal rationale for Venezuela strike
Trump first-term records will soon be subject to FOIA
Plus: Trump administration continues reliance on secret law to justify potentially unlawful actions
Here’s the document giving ICE 80 million Medicaid patients’ data
FPF and 404 Media won access to it in our joint FOIA lawsuit
