Drake takes plea deal in leak case
Clara Hogan Feature June 10, 2011Former National Security Agency official Thomas Drake pleaded guilty to a dramatically lower charge on Friday – the 10 felony charges against him were thrown-out -- in...
View ArticleGroup proposes accountability for overclassification
J.C. Derrick Feature October 5, 2011The Brennan Center for Justice released a report today on government overclassification, and proposed a pilot program for the federal government that calls for...
View ArticleU.S. files unopposed motion to seal parts of oral argument in Sterling, Risen...
Chris Healy News April 10, 2012Department of Justice attorneys have filed an unopposed motion to close to the public parts of the upcoming oral argument concerning the Espionage Act prosecution of...
View ArticleFourth Circuit to close portions of oral argument in Sterling case to the public
Andrea Papagianis News April 19, 2012Classified portions of oral arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va. (4th Cir.) will be closed to the public in the government's case against...
View ArticleJudge denies request for bin Laden death photos and video
Rachel Bunn News April 27, 2012A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has denied a request to order the U.S. government to publicly release photographs and video under the federal Freedom of Information...
View ArticleGovernment says it will not seek testimony of journalists in Kiriakou...
Emily Miller News July 9, 2012The U.S. government announced it will not subpoena journalists as witnesses in the prosecution of a former intelligence officer who allegedly leaked classified...
View ArticleGovernment argues FOIA would provide sufficient access to Manning...
Emily Miller News July 10, 2012The federal government asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces on Monday to become the third court to deny the public access to military court documents in...
View ArticleFederal courts have power to review classification decisions, government...
Monika Fidler News November 28, 2012Government attorneys confirmed on Tuesday that federal courts have the right under the federal Freedom of Information Act to review agency decisions to classify...
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NYT v. DOJ, No. 13-422
April 22, 20132013-04-22-nyt-v-doj-no-13-422.pdfThe New York Times Company and the American Civil Liberties Union sought records under the federal Freedom of Information Act detailing the U.S....
View ArticleFederal court upholds classification of treaty materials sought under FOIA
Aaron Mackey News June 7, 2013A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the government could withhold a document under the Freedom of Information Act on national security grounds, saying that a lower...
View ArticleAppeals court rules government must release drone memo
Emily Grannis News April 25, 2014A federal appeals court has ruled that the Department of Justice must release a memo on the legal basis for using drone strikes to kill American citizens abroad.The New...
View ArticleGeorge W. Bush directs relatively broad release of presidential records
Michael Rooney News April 29, 2014Former President George W. Bush has instructed the National Archives to release nine categories of documents from his presidency to the public, a much broader...
View ArticleIntelligence agencies defend new review policy
Emily Grannis News May 12, 2014Under increasing public scrutiny over a new pre-publication review policy, the Office of the Director National Intelligence released a statement claiming the media has...
View ArticleSeventh Circuit closes portion of hearing on document access in terrorism...
Danielle Keeton-Olsen News June 5, 2014After 30 minutes of public arguments, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit called a closed-door “secret hearing” on Wednesday in the U.S. government’s...
View ArticleFree press groups petition Attorney General on behalf of journalist James Risen
Emily Grannis News August 14, 2014More than 100,000 people, including 20 Pulitzer Prize winners, signed a petition submitted to President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder today urging the...
View Article"Citizenfour" filmmakers move to dismiss federal lawsuit
Tom Isler Commentary February 13, 2015The makers of Citizenfour, the Oscar-nominated documentary film about Edward Snowden, have moved to dismiss a federal civil lawsuit that alleges they aided and...
View ArticleGovernment argues FOIA would provide sufficient access to Manning...
Emily Miller News July 10, 2012The federal government asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces on Monday to become the third court to deny the public access to military court documents in...
View ArticleFederal courts have power to review classification decisions, government...
Monika Fidler News November 28, 2012Government attorneys confirmed on Tuesday that federal courts have the right under the federal Freedom of Information Act to review agency decisions to classify...
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NYT v. DOJ, No. 13-422
April 22, 20132013-04-22-nyt-v-doj-no-13-422.pdfThe New York Times Company and the American Civil Liberties Union sought records under the federal Freedom of Information Act detailing the U.S....
View ArticleFederal court upholds classification of treaty materials sought under FOIA
Aaron Mackey News June 7, 2013A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the government could withhold a document under the Freedom of Information Act on national security grounds, saying that a lower...
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