Lauren Harper

Author: Lauren Harper

Want to Know Who the US is at War With? Too Bad, Says Pentagon.
Friend or Foe? The US’ Complicated Intelligence-Sharing Relationship with Europe
FRINFORMSUM 8/29/2013
The CIA Declassifies Area 51
FRINFORMSUM 8/15/2013: Answers for Brazil, ‘No Spy’ Pacts with Germany, and a Confusing report from the National Declassification Center.
Revisiting the Radiation Files
FRINFORMSUM 8/9/2013: NSA Revelations Might Play a Part in Upcoming German Elections, NSC Records Still Not Subject to the FOIA, and More
FRINFORMSUM 8/1/2013: Senator Al Franken Calls James Clapper’s Timely Declassification “Ad Hoc Transparency.”
UPDATE: The USS Pueblo: “The cost of this deployment to the nation in terms of the amount of cryptologic material compromised was enormous.”
The 1962 State Department Paper, ‘The White Redoubt,’ Demonstrates Myriad of Problems with Crafting Policy towards Apartheid-era South Africa
FRINFORMSUM 7/25/13: State’s Cybersecurity Office Not Up to Snuff, CIA Drone Strikes More Deadly than Previously Thought, and More
Henry Kissinger Jokes About Making a Pawn of Bobby Fischer
FRINFORMSUM 7/18/2013: The Fallout Continues
The Documents behind the Birth of FISA, the Invisible Hand Granting NSA’s Surveillance the Legal ‘OK’
Not Quite Another “Year of the Spy.”
7/11/2013 FRINFORMSUM: State Rolls Out Sleek, User-Friendly, Comprehensive FOIA Site
“The Shell Game” and the Osama bin Laden Documents
National Security Agency has pushed to “rethink and reapply” its treatment of the Fourth Amendment since before 9/11
Four Months Later: Still No Answers for Outdated Agency FOIA Regulations Letter
Archive FOIA Coordinator Nate Jones Discusses Able Archer 83 with Robert Farley on Bloggingheads