Tips for filing FOIA requests during a government shutdown
Plus: Secret law provides cover for more killings
John Oliver rips presidential library loophole
Plus: There shouldn’t be secret law. Pam Bondi didn’t get the memo
Trump has made most of his national security memos public. Except one
Plus: How is the FBI responding to FPF’s FOIA requests? Not well.
We sued the government over excessive secrecy three times this week
Plus: New report shows classification mistakes are rampant
Will the FBI tell us if it knew Charlie Kirk was in danger?
Plus: 9/11 records turn 25 next year. They should be automatically declassified.
How bad is secrecy? We don't know legal basis for killing 11
Plus: The JD Vance meme is harmless. But detaining someone for 18 hours over it and denying having any information about the detainment isn’t
You filed a FOIA, then the agency wrongly demanded ID. What now?
Plus: more updates from FPF’s FOIA trenches, and how news deserts enable government secrecy.
Most classified records don’t deserve protection — or justify an FBI raid
There are a lot of good reasons to hate John Bolton. This isn’t one of them
The Energy Department is trying to close your FOIA request
Plus: What we’re doing about Trump’s D.C. takeover
What happened the day the BLS chief was fired? An FPF FOIA seeks answers
Plus: the Church Committee uncovered the CIA’s worst spying abuses. Some of the committee’s own records may soon be declassified
