UNREDACTED: The National Security Archive Blog

Category: Documents

Includes “Document Friday” posts as well as other posts that focus on government documents

Declassified Diplomacy with Brazil: National Security Archive Hails Obama Administration Decision to Assist Brazilian Truth Commission

June 20, 2014
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.

June 13, 2014
For 25th Year in a Row, China Braces for Tiananmen Square Backlash

June 5, 2014
Remembering an Archive Hero

May 29, 2014
FRINFORMSUM 5/15/2014: Senators Slam DOJ for Contributing to “Culture of Misinformation,” Sprint was Given Legal Rationale for NSA Domestic Spying, and Much More.

May 15, 2014
Why We Can’t Trust the CIA to Redact the Senate Report on CIA Torture

April 30, 2014
Forty-Seven Office of Legal Counsel Memo Titles that the DOJ Did Not Use B(5) to Redact

April 25, 2014
Two and a Half Years Later, DOJ Forced to “Confirm or Deny” Existence of Memo Justifying Drone Assassinations of Americans

April 22, 2014
The US Effort To Not Notify the Soviets about Able Archer, Reforger, or Autumn Forge 76 and 77

April 18, 2014
The CIA’s Declassified Torture Handbook: How to Create a “World of Fear, Terror, Anxiety, Dread.”

April 15, 2014
The Next FOIA Fight: The B(5) “Withhold It Because You Want To” Exemption

March 27, 2014
Agencies Must Update FOIA Regulations

March 20, 2014
Director of National Intelligence General Counsel: “Not Can We Classify –But Should We?”

March 19, 2014
Senator Feinstein Finds Out How it Feels to be a FOIA Requester

March 11, 2014
US Documents Help Contextualize Iraqi Records on Iranian Nuclear Program

February 25, 2014
Declassified Documents Shed Light on 1980 Moscow Olympics Boycott

February 14, 2014
“Neither Confirm Nor Deny:” The History of the Glomar Response and the Glomar Explorer

February 11, 2014
Daily Situation Reports Show Peacekeepers in Rwanda Ill-Equipped and Unprepared to Carry Out Mission in January 1994

February 10, 2014
How Much Do You Know About the National Security Archive?

February 3, 2014
Stasi Documents Provide Details on Operation RYaN, the Soviet Plan to Predict and Preempt a Western Nuclear Strike; Show Uneasiness Over Degree of “Clear-Headedness About the Entire RYaN Complex.”

January 29, 2014