News Highlights – October 13, 2015

Manning sues FBI over access to records in WikiLeaks case The Pinochet File: U.S. Declassifies Missing Documents in the Letelier-Moffitt Case Op-Ed: Obama still failing on government transparency Court sides   Read Full


News Highlights – October 9, 2015

Tearing down the wall of secrecy Public Access to Military Trials: The Increasingly Strange Case of Sergeant Bergdahl Weather Service Staffers Protest 'Gag Orders' in Workforce Planning   Read Full


News Highlights – October 8, 2015

FBI director calls lack of data on police shootings ‘ridiculous,’ ‘embarrassing’ The Battle Between the House’s Two Ethics Watchdogs Just Escalated DoD Security-Cleared Population Drops Again   Read Full


News Highlights – October 7, 2015

Co-Sponsors: Cybersecurity Bill to Resurface After Next Week’s Recess Why is U.S. Refusing an Independent Investigation if it's So Clear its Hospital Airstrike was an "Accident"? U.S. Government Denies FOIA   Read Full


OTG Releases Progress Report on 2nd Open Government Partnership Plan – October 5, 2015 Newsletter

– Don't Miss from OTG (more) – Updates on Coalition Partners & Others (more) – Coalition Partner Events (more) – OTG Releases Progress Report on 2nd Open Government Partnership Plan   Read Full


News Highlights – October 6, 2015

Federal watchdog reopening latest probe of Secret Service SEC plans oil payment transparency rule by June 2016   Read Full


News Highlights – October 5, 2015

The agency that’s supposed to protect whistleblowers across the government got slapped for retaliating against one of its own Loretta Lynch: government shouldn't require reports of people killed by police   Read Full


News Highlights – October 2, 2015

Obama Again Found Lacking in Open Government Efforts 'National Security' Too Vague in Immigration FOIA Case The AUMF, ISIL, and… FOIA?   Read Full


News Highlights – October 1, 2015

How the Army Abuses FOIA to "Get Out in Front" of Reporters Bush transparency claims tested by unreleased Bacardi emails Vern Buchanan, Duncan Hunter Want Army to Reinstate Afghan Sex   Read Full


News Highlights – September 30, 2015

Judge Shields Records on Pacific Trade Deal Report Alleges Army Surgeon General Tried to Cover Up Concussion Data Audit: IRS improperly withholding information requested by taxpayers   Read Full