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AP: Pentagon Details U.S. Abuse of Detainees – Pentagon Says U.S. Forces Used Unapproved Interrogation Practices on Iraq, Afghan Detainees DOJ: Documents released in litigation on June 15, 2006 Formica Report Jacoby Report Schmidt-Furlow Report Enclosures Record of Courts Martial, (NOV 19, 2003) Record of Courts Martial, (JAN 7, 2003) Record of Courts Martial, (JAN …
Congressional Oversight of Intelligence is Broken, June 13, 2006. “The Center for American Progress today releases a comprehensive study of congressional oversight of the U.S. Intelligence Community, “No Mere Oversight: Congressional Oversight of Intelligence is Broken,” (47 pages, PDF) that delineates where Congress is failing in its oversight duties and how past congressional methods, ways …
Press release: “Senator Chuck Grassley today requested more information from FBI Director Robert Mueller about the FBI’s handling of a terrorist financing case and the subsequent classification of several portions of an Inspector General report about the botched case…Grassley’s letter [included in this press release] also questioned Mueller’s use of selective unclassified portions of the …
ABC reports that DOJ has filed suit in NJ District Court (Trenton) seeking an injunction to prevent the NJ attorney general from obtaining records on data that carriers provided in conjunction with the domestic surveillance program.
Press release: “The National Security Archive today filed suit [National Security Archive v. Central Intelligence Agency] in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), challenging the Agency’s recent practice of charging Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) fees to journalists pursuing news. The FOIA says that “representatives …
Press release: “The lawsuit was filed today in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania by the national ACLU and its affiliates in Florida, Georgia, Rhode Island, Maine, Pennsylvania and Washington. The lawsuit charges that the Defense Department is refusing to comply with national Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests seeking records on …
Washington Post, Public Secrets, by Robert G. Kaiser, Sunday, June 11, 2006. “Steven Aftergood, who works on classification issues for the Federation of American Scientists, calls the administration’s approach to secrets “a cultivation of fear as a policy driver.” He adds: “We are being told that nothing is more important than the external threat that …
CIA FOIA Top 25 Search Phrases: “This collection reports the most frequent phrases used to search for documents on this site during the previous month, along with the number of times that search phrase was entered. It does not reflect phrases entered into third-party search engines used to find this site, but rather reflects phrases …
Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing: Examining DOJ’s Investigation of Journalists Who Publish Classified Information: Lessons from the Jack Anderson Case, June 6, 2006. Links to testimony and member statements Related posting, AG States Prosecution of Journalists for Leaks is Legal
“The Freedom of Information Act Guide & Privacy Act Overview contains the “Justice Department Guide to the Freedom of Information Act,” a detailed discussion of the FOIA’s substantive and procedural aspects that has become the primary FOIA reference volume; the “Privacy Act Overview,” an overview discussion of the provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974 …
Michael Ravnitzky’s FOIA requests for FBI files on Bacteriological Warfare in the United States, from 1950-1971 [709 redacted pages], are now available in PDF, with further releases forthcoming, according to Russ Kick at the Memory Hole.
This New York Times article describes the obstacles used by the SEC to obstruct public access to corporate records, even if a third party expert is used to facilitate document retrieval using a FOIA request.
