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Defense Secretary Robert Gates has used powers granted to him by a controversial new law to block the court-ordered release of numerous photos of deta...
New York Times | DAVID M. HALBFINGER | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
When news broke in August that the former United States attorney, Christopher J. Christie, had lent $46,000 to a top aide in the federal prosecutor's ...
AP | By TIM TALLEY | Posted 09.27.2009 | Home
***Scroll down for video*** OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)-- Long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma Ci...
USA Today | Matt Kelley | Posted 09.23.2009 | Media
A search of the agency's main index of the subjects of FBI investigations found some records tied to Cronkite's name were destroyed in October 2007, t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 09.17.2009 | Business
For over a year, the Federal Reserve has refused to publicly identify the companies that received over two trillion dollars through its emergency lend...
Reuters | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media
Fox News Network LLC on Wednesday appealed a U.S. judge's decision not to force the U.S. Federal Reserve to reveal the names of participants in its em...
Posted 09.25.2009 | Business
The Federal Reserve has been ordered to reveal the names of companies that received emergency loans during the financial crisis, after losing a Freedo...
Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
Under the Freedom of Information Act, the CIA has been forced by the ACLU to release its report on Bush-era interrogation operations written by former...
Peter Scheer | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
Many elected officials have become proficient at using technology to thwart public access to government. Why not, instead, use technology to enhance transparency and accountability?
mpetrelis.blogspot.com | Posted 09.17.2009 | Entertainment
When I submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for any records they may have in their archive on Michael...
State Journal-Register | Posted 09.17.2009 | Chicago
Gov. Pat Quinn today signed into law a rewrite of the state's open-records law that will allow courts to fine public bodies that violate it "willfully...
Frank Naif | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
The outsourcing of intelligence has impacted nearly every aspect of intelligence operations, and Congress wants to know how and why.
ProPublica | Posted 07.18.2009 | Media
That got ProPublica interested in how many other companies had asked the FAA to excise their planes' tail numbers from records tracking private flight...
Rep. Louise Slaughter | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics
Thursday night we learned that a provision banning the release of prisoner abuse photos was dropped from the supplemental war spending bill.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics
House Democrats are insisting on hearings before they even consider signing onto the Senate's move to suppress detainee photographs, House Financial S...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
With the war supplemental under fire from some unlikely allies in the House, Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) threatened Mond...
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics
Until we take off our blindfolds, until we truly hold accountable those who authorized these heinous acts, we will continue to endanger not only ourselves, but our troops.
AP | Posted 06.13.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan's office is proposing changes to the state open records law that it says would dramatically cut ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Danny Shea | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media
The Huffington Post has obtained a letter from Fox News to the Department of Homeland Security requesting they release the entire report on the right-...
Associated Press | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 04.16.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO -- When former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said a day before being arrested that sunshine hung over him, he wasn't talking about releasing p...
James Love | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics
We have been seeking access to documents relating to negotiations on an important new intellectual property enforcement treaty. The agreement, misle...
Associated Press | Posted 03.28.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Gov. Pat Quinn has some new instructions on releasing public information: Do it. Quinn sent a memo to state agencies Wednesday t...
Washington Independent | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics
This week, the Obama administration will face its second significant courtroom test of the president's pledges to end unwarranted secrecy about the wo...
John McQuaid | Posted 02.22.2009 | Media
Obama (correctly, I think) sees the press representing two things that are clear obstacles to his ambitious plans: official Washington and a trivia-obsessed media culture.
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 01.18.2009 | Media
Fox Business Network has filed a lawsuit against the Treasury Department over "failure to provide information on the bailout funds or respond to FBN's...
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Mother Jones | Nick Baumann | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics