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ACLU seeking the truth about the CIA's detainee abuses

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U.S. Court of Appeals rejects CIA's motion to squash lawsuit on Bay of Pigs...

From Global Research:Washington, D.C. (Dec 7, 2012) – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit yesterday rejected the CIA’s attempt to shortcut the National Security Archive’s lawsuit under the...

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DC Appeals Court rejects CIA's secrecy claims in ACLU's targeted killing FOIA...

From American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU):WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court ruled today that the Central Intelligence Agency cannot deny its "intelligence interest" in the targeted killing program...

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US Attorney blocks release of information on CIA driver licenses

From Northwest Public Radio:  The US Attorney in Seattle has stepped in to block the release of information about a once-secret program under which fictitious driver licenses were issued by the state...

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CIA memo confirms snooping file on Noam Chomsky

From journalgazette.net:  For years, the Central Intelligence Agency denied it had a secret file on MIT professor and famed dissident Noam Chomsky. But a new government disclosure obtained by FP...

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CIA refuses to acknowledge drone targeted killings

From Wired:  Months after a federal appeals court reinstated a lawsuit seeking Central Intelligence Agency documents outlining the government’s drone targeted killing program, the President Barack...

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CIA formally acknowledges its role in 1953 Iranian coup

From USA Today:  The CIA, in recently declassified documents, has formally acknowledged that the spy agency helped to plan and execute the coup in Iran in 1953 that overthrew the democratically...

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CIA closes office that declassifies historical materials

From latimes.com:  The budget ax has fallen on a CIA office that focused on declassifying historical materials, a move scholars say will mean fewer public disclosures about long-buried intelligence...

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Major ruling in Knight FOI Fund-supported case

COLUMBIA, Mo. (August 26, 2013) -- In a major ruling in a case supported by the Knight FOI Fund, a Washington DC-based federal district judge has ruled that the Central Intelligence Agency cannot use...

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Lawsuit filed to obtain copy of Senate committee’s torture report

From Jason Leopold at The Public Record:  Late Monday evening, I filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Justice to obtain a copy of the executive summary of the...

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Court curbs CIA use of a FOIA exemption

From The Federation of American Scientists: The Central Intelligence Agency tried to make “inappropriate” use of an exemption from the Freedom of Information Act to withhold information that was not...

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Snowden says he took no secret files to Russia

From The New York Times: WASHINGTON — Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor, said in an extensive interview this month that he did not take any secret N.S.A. documents with...

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CIA cleared on answer to telepathy FOIA demand

From Courthouse News Service: SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) - The CIA properly handled a man's demand for records on his 1966 interrogation regarding telepathy and espionage, a federal judge ruled. Phillip...

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Blog: Senator Feinstein Finds Out How it Feels to be a FOIA Requester

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Exclusive: CIA Sued For Info Over Spying on Senate Torture Investigation

Today Jason Leopold and Ryan Shapiro, commonly known as Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) warriors, upped the ante in their fight for more transparency from the CIA relating to its Bush-era torture...

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Here's What Happens When You Challenge the CIA Through "Proper Channels"

One of the standard criticisms of Edward Snowden is that he should have tried harder to air his concerns via proper channels. This is fairly laughable on its face, since even now the NSA insists that...

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CIA Tells FOIA Requester That He Needs To Know Everything About The Emails...

More FOIA-related nonsense, this time from the CIA. Michael Morisy, co-founder of MuckRock, sent a request for internal emails discussing (rather ironically) the fact that the CIA's "FOIA Portal"...

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This Week in Transparency: Shenanigans at the CIA, open-source FOIA reform,...

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10 Fascinating Articles From the CIA's Secret Employee Magazine

In 2007, Jeffrey Scudder, a veteran information technology specialist at the Central Intelligence Agency, came across the archives of the agency's in-house magazine, Studies in Intelligence. The...

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'What's the CIA doing on Amazon's cloud?' Open-government activists want to know

It looms over the road leading to Amazon's headquarters in Seattle. The 48-foot-wide billboard offers a query, but it's actually a challenge. "The $600 million question: What's the CIA doing on...

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CIA ‘torture report’ could be out Monday

A long awaited Senate report on the CIA’s former “enhanced interrogation" techniques could be out by Monday. Vice News reported Jason Leopold, who has a longstanding Freedom of Information Act lawsuit...

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Transparency isn’t what keeps government from working

In 2014, a number of big thinkers made the surprising claim that government openness and transparency are to blame for today’s gridlock. They have it backward: Not only is there no relationship...

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ACLU Wins Round on ‘Torture Report’

The American Civil Liberties Union early Monday withdrew an emergency motion filed late last month in its Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that blocked the chairman of the Senate Intelligence...

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Judge Orders CIA To Pay $400,000 In Legal Fees To FOIA Requester It Jerked...

The CIA has been fighting to keep POW/MIA records out of Roger Hall's hands for over a decade. With that FOIA battle finally over, the CIA is now fighting to keep its money out of Roger Hall's hands....

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Judge Says Government Can Continue To Refuse To Acknowledge Certain Drone...

Documents pertaining to the accidental killing of two men by US drone strikes in Yemen can continue to remain unacknowledged by the agencies guiding the strikes.read more

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