Some of President Barack Obama's political appointees are using secret government email accounts
The staffs of the state's top prosecutor and the governor's office have been working in secret on legislation to withhold records...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention considers itself to be one of the nation’s foremost scientific institutions
There is a group of people in America that may be more committed to prying documents from the government than just about anyone else
When Barack Obama ran for president in 2008, his pledges of openness and transparency were not ancillary to his campaign but central to it.
The U.S. government, led by the Pentagon and CIA, censored or withheld for reasons of national security
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released the details of a 2009 investigation into internet activist Aaron Swartz to The Black Vault
DHS processed a total of 205,895 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests during the year.
The full extent of the CIA's extraordinary rendition programme has been laid bare with the evidence that more than a quarter of the world's governments covertly offered support
Attorney General Eric Holder and his Department of Justice have asked a federal court to indefinitely delay a lawsuit brought by watchdog group Judicial Watch.
“My administration,” President Obama wrote on his first day in office, “is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government.”