
Tag : FOIA
Journalist Files FOIA Request for Obama’s Game of Thrones Screeners
The US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was designed to facilitate transparency in matters of government, allowing members of the public to access to Federal agency records in order to hold the ruling classes accountable. An…
NSA Kept E-Mail Metadata Program After Claiming it Ended in 2011
Following the massive leak of surveillance data by whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013, it was revealed that the US National Security Agency (NSA – its headquarters pictured above) had been collecting e-mail metadata as part of…
Secret Apology Letter Reveals CIA Spied on US Senate
The CIA didn’t spy on the US Senate. It said as much, in a rather aggressive manner, while accusing the Senate of impropriety by even suggesting such a thing, throwing out the Inspector General’s report on…