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.
Snowden surveillance revelations take on added urgency 12 years later
The anniversary is a reminder to resist the characterization of whistleblowers as threats to national security for revealing information the government wants to keep secret.
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
Trump administration abuses secrecy rules to manipulate news narrative
Podcast appearance highlights National Archives crisis and how Trump’s efforts to rewrite history will make it harder for policymakers to be effective
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
Politicizing declassification has dire consequences
It will corrupt historical accounts of this administration — and is a recipe for disaster.
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.
State Department must declassify Rümeysa Öztürk deportation rationale
And if the administration doesn’t want to disclose embarrassing information about its actions, it should stop making up reasons to deport people
Why Trump’s decision to crack down on journalists prompted FPF FOIA win
Plus more of this week’s most important secrecy news.
FOIA win by FPF undermines new DOJ policy on journalists and sources
The FOIA release also undercuts rationale for invoking the Alien Enemies Act to deport a group of Venezuelans to El Salvador.
