Snowden surveillance disclosures should be revisited as DOGE builds its “master database”
Plus: Justice Department lets former White House officials accused of stealing presidential records keep them.
FOIA reporting makes headlines. Wired and 404 Media make the articles free.
Plus: The Food and Drug Administration is still hiding deadly E. coli outbreak information
Do you trust Marco Rubio to administer the Electoral College?
Plus: Major hack of FOIA software reveals problems of government’s overreliance on private companies
Did Gabbard respond to FPF FOIA release by firing officials, scrubbing website?
Plus: No, the $400 million jet isn’t going to a library. It’s going to a private foundation.
Why Trump’s decision to crack down on journalists prompted FPF FOIA win
Plus more of this week’s most important secrecy news.
Government says 94% of FOIA requests released, in surprise to requesters
Plus: White House move threatens world’s largest transparency project
E. coli secrecy places corporate interests over public health
Plus: RFK Jr. says “We’re going to try to get as close as we can to total transparency.”
If Congress wants robust oversight powers, it must defend FOIA
Plus: Excessive government secrecy might be bad for your investment portfolio
Here’s how the firing of FOIA officials could hurt the DOGE audit
Plus: Tulsi Gabbard wants to declassify information that “serves the public interest.” But who is determining what’s in the public interest?
RFK Jr. promises radical transparency, then closes FOIA shops
Plus: Which FOIA offices might be closed next
