Lauren Harper

Author: Lauren Harper

Why FOIA’s Loophole Needs Legislative Suture
Alaskans Trained as “Stay-Behind” Agents in Case of Invasion, DOJ Considers Invoking State Secrets Privilege in Private Defamation Lawsuit, and Much More: FRINFORMSUM 9/5/2014
Costa Rica Investigating US Anti-Cuban Activism, CIA Torture Report, New Iran-Contra Book, and Much More: FRINFORMSUM 8/28/2014
CIA Not Disclosing Unclassified Info to Fed Transparency Site, Snowden Left the NSA “Bread Crumbs” to Help Determine Which Documents He Copied, and More: FRINFORMSUM 8/14/2014
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CIA IG Report Shows Agency Spied on Senate Staff After All, Torture Report Declassification Delayed, and More: FRINFORMSUM 8/7/2014
Declassification of Senate’s CIA Torture Report Summary Nears, Probe Resumes of Systemic Problems in FBI’s Forensic Testimony, and Much More: FRINFORMSUM 7/31/2014
Reagan-era EO 12333 Comes Under Scrutiny, Authors of 9/11 Commission Report Call for More IC Transparency, and Much More: FRINFORMSUM 7/24/2014
CIA Station Chief Ordered out of Berlin, DOJ Declining to Investigate CIA Complaints that Senate Staff Hacked into Agency Computers while Completing Contentious Torture Report, and More: FRINFORMSUM 7/17/2014
Decades-Old Rwandan Genocide Documents Withheld under B(5) FOIA Exemption, Researchers Forced to look Abroad for Transparency
NSA Retaining “Useless” and Highly Personal Information of Ordinary Internet Users, Spying on Prominent American Muslims, CBP’s Internal Affairs Division Under Investigation Yet Again, and Much More: FRINFORMSUM 7/10/2014
DNI’s Transparency Report “Provides No Basis” for Evaluating Surveillance, FBI Doesn’t Keep Track of its 702 Searches, Blackwater Back Under Scrutiny, and Much More: FRINFORMSUM 7/3/2014
50 Open Government Groups Support FOIA Legislation that Addresses “Wildly Misused” Exemption, Drone Memo Release, Report that Drone Usage is a “Slippery Slope” to Perpetual War, and Much More; FRINFORMSUM 6/26/2014.
FRINFORMSUM 6/19/2014: The FBI’s Elite Hostage Rescue Team, the Bureau’s 83-Page Guide to Twitter Slang, and Much More.
FRINFORMSUM 6/13/2014: Lawsuit reveals it’s Too Complicated for the NSA to Preserve its Surveillance Records, Core Transparency Measures left out of USA Freedom Act, and Much More.
FRINFORMSUM 6/5/2014: Federal Judge Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Legal –For Now, NSA Harvesting Millions of Images from the Web for its Global Facial Recognition Programs, and Much More.
For 25th Year in a Row, China Braces for Tiananmen Square Backlash
Remembering an Archive Hero
FRINFORMSUM 5/29/2014: DOJ Begins Core FOIA Regs Review, White House Inadvertently Names Top CIA Officer in Afghanistan, Country X, and Much More.
Model FOIA Regulations