Earlier this week, OpenTheGovernment.org filed a detailed complaint with the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO), arguing that even after the release of the Senate torture report’s Read Full
September 17, 2015
This June, OpenTheGovernment.org filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the classification guidance that now governs the CIA’s rendition, detention and interrogation (RDI) program, to see precisely how Read Full
August 7, 2015
A unanimous panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday ruled that the NSA’s nationwide collection of Americans’ phone records is illegal, unauthorized by section 215 of the PATRIOT Read Full
May 8, 2015
Two months ago today, the Senate Intelligence Committee released the Executive Summary of its report on the CIA’s detention and torture program. Read Full
February 9, 2015
On January 28, OpenTheGovernment.org and 8 other groups wrote to President Obama, asking his administration to stop ignoring the nearly 7000-page torture report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Read Full
January 28, 2015
Shortly after he became chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in January, Senator Richard Burr told reporters in his home state that he had no intention of trying Read Full
January 23, 2015
The Inspector General for the Office of the Direct of National Intelligence (DNI) has released its annual report on over-classification. Like most reports by government agencies on this subject, it acknowledges Read Full
January 18, 2015
The release of the Senate torture report last week has, in too many outlets, been portrayed in narrow, partisan terms: Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee against the Bush administration and its Read Full
December 17, 2014
Last month, OpenTheGovernment.org and 16 other civil society groups wrote to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to oppose a CIA request for additional authority to destroy emails. This week, five Read Full
November 21, 2014
OpenTheGovernment.org and 16 other open government, civil liberties and human rights groups have asked the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to reject a CIA request for increased authority to Read Full
November 3, 2014