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Collateral Effects of Secretary Clinton’s Nonofficial Email

On March 2, the New York Times reported that Hillary Clinton exclusively used a nongovernment email account during her tenure as Secretary of State. Last December, following a…
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The Erosion of a Secret

Drone Timeline (Click to Enlarge) In connection with an ACLU Freedom of Information Act lawsuit pending before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the CIA has…
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OLC Memos and FOIA: Why the (b)(5) Exemption Matters

The headline of yesterday’s D.C. Circuit decision in Electronic Frontier Foundation v. Department of Justice, in which the Court of Appeals rejected a FOIA request for a…
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ACLU Sues CIA for Release of Torture Reports

Yesterday, the ACLU filed a FOIA lawsuit to compel the CIA to disclose two reports on the CIA’s post-9/11 detention and interrogation programs.   The full complaint can…
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Selective Disclosure About Targeted Killing

For several years, the ACLU has been pressing the Obama administration to be more transparent about the targeted-killing program.  I’m starting to wonder whether it understands…
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