After nearly a quarter century of uncovering government secrets, the National Security Archive today opens its virtual doors with a new behind-the-scenes blog, Unredacted: The National Security Archive, Unedited and Uncensored. The Archive’s own experience with thousands of Freedom of Information Act and Mandatory Declassification Review requests provides a wealth of data and fundamental lessons that we hope to share with you.
Unredacted will highlight never before publicly seen government documents as part of our regular “Document Friday” series. The blog will feature commentary and analysis from our experts on current news stories, events, ongoing litigation and advocacy efforts, newly-released documents, and other hot topics. We will regularly highlight some of our top document collections – including unpublished collections donated by top journalists and authors – that are available to researchers and the public. The new blog will also tell you more about the Archive’s global activities, including reports from the fields as Archive staff travel to document archives around the world, assist international courts and tribunals with human rights cases, support efforts to enact and implement freedom of information laws in other nations, and attend meetings and conferences with other NGO representatives and high-level government officials.
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4 responses to “Introducing Unredacted, an inside scoop on government secrecy”
sounds excellent. will be eagerly looking forward to this
best of luck and thank you
Will new postings to Unredacted — your articles, not just comments — be sent as email links to people signed up for the Archives’ email notifications? That would be helpful.
Best wishes with this important project.
Thank you, muzz and Betty, for your comments. This is a really exciting project for us, and we’re still figuring out what we can do with what we have. Right now the Archive email list isn’t being used to promote the blog, but you can subscribe to rss feeds here. Or, follow us on twitter (nsarchive)!
Greetings and good luck with this initiative from your avid ‘secrecy news’ reader in the Netherlands.
I have translated the band’s protests against the abuse of music for torture and will try to disseminate more on this in Europe.