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Thursday, June 12, 2008 - Posts

U.S. Supreme Court ruling today: OK to ask for records even if someone else asked and was rejected

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today in a unanimous decision that it's OK for someone to request documents under FOIA even if someone else had asked for the documents, been denied, sued, and lost. Every person has a right to request and challenge a denial,

U.S. State Department blackballs FOI advocate from distribution list

Steven Aftergood, who writes the Secrecy News blog for the Federation of American Scientists, is appealing a decision by the U.S. State Department to take him off a distribution list because he corrected errors in their Foreign Relations of the United