Capricious government secrecy could threaten crop production

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News outlets can help preserve the public domain, and maybe even gain some subscribers
Plus: Why should the public have to wait until 2034 to file FOIA requests with DOGE?
Trump and Musk are trying to use the Presidential Records Act’s giant loopholes to hide DOGE’s records
How DOGE handles agency records will show its commitment to (or disavowal of) government transparency rules, with implications for every federal office it accesses
The Trump adviser has said all government records should be public. DOGE will show if he means it.
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FOIA is just as fragile and in disrepair as it was when Biden was elected
The U.S. should not only demand its ally explain the arrest of an American journalist, but pressure it to release the 43 Palestinian journalists who remain in custody if it can’t prove they committed a crime.
Requirement to notify government employees when their disciplinary records are requested is about secrecy, not privacy
A World War I-era document containing a secret ink recipe that the CIA deemed worthy of classification for nearly 100 years