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Are Libraries Places to Learn or Engage in Illegality? by Raizel Liebler. “The United States Supreme Court has had three major cases in its history, Brown, Pico, and American Library Association, addressing the appropriate role of libraries and the activities allowed within library premises. The scope of the cases ranges from whether libraries are the …
This chart provides the following information: a link to each record, the date the record was produced, the date it was released, the authoring agency, and the record description. Many of the documents have text that is redacted; in numerous instances, there is no legible text at all.
Cache and Carry: Staying Connected Wirelessly, by Chris Hayes Law Firm Marketing: Webinars For All of Us, by Andy Havens Notes From the Technology Trenches: Lexis and Westlaw Revisited, by Cindy Carlson FOIA Facts: FOIA Decision 2004, by Scott A. Hodes Burney’s Gadgets for Legal Pros: A Tablet PC for Lawyers in Motion, by Brett …
From the press release: “The National Security Archive today filed suit against the Central Intelligence Agency (“CIA”) seeking the expedited processing and release under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) of the 2004 Iraq National Intelligence Estimate (“NIE). As the New York Times reported on September 16, 2004, the NIE spells out a dark assessment …
This Los Angeles Times commentary (reg. req’d) documents how a CIA Office of Inspector General report on 9/11, although completed several months ago, will not be made available to the Congress until after the election.
From Secrecy News: “Congressional conferees narrowed the scope of a new Freedom of Information Act exemption for certain categories of commercial satellite imagery and related products. As revised, the exemption would apply only to imagery whose sale to non-government customers is already prohibited “for reasons of national security.” The final language in section 914 of …
ACLU press release: “Unprecedented Release of Government Documents Reveal Confusion and Absence of Policy in Implementing No-Fly Lists, ACLU Says.” CNN article: Review: ‘No-fly list’ lacks rules, procedures: “CNN reached those conclusions after receiving more than 300 pages of Transportation Security Administration documents, including memos and interagency e-mail.” Links to the No-Fly List filing, and …
From Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), “a data gathering, data research and data distribution organization associated with Syracuse University, this new bulletin: Federal Pollution Enforcement Declines: Details by Statute.
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Homefront Confidential: How the War on Terrorism Affects Access to Information and the Public’s Right to Know, 5th edition, Prepared by The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP). Contents page and the RCFP White Paper, full-text (PDF, 100 pages).
A new report prepared for Rep. Henry A. Waxman “analyzes how the Administration has implemented each of our nation’s major open government laws (the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the Presidential Records Act, and the Federal Advisory Committee Act).” Report Table of Contents (Full Report, 90 pages, PDF) Secrecy in the Bush Administration Related legislation …
From the press release issued today by Sen. Frank Lautenberg: “In a report requested by Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ), the Government Accountability Office issued a ruling today (PDF, 13 pages) finding that former CMS Administrator Tom Scully illegally ordered his staff to withhold information from Congress. The Department of Health and Human Services has …
