A rare moment of bipartisan unity has emerged in the halls of Congress - one aimed at tackling a threat not from abroad, but from within: overclassification. On July 9, 2024, Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced the Classification Reform for...
In a rare act of government transparency, a 1994 U.S. State Department Dissent Channel message has been declassified - and it offers a hauntingly prescient warning: Washington’s economic and political policies in post-Soviet Russia were doomed to fail. Penned by a...
A new federal lawsuit filed by the National Security Archive has thrust a long-overdue transparency crisis into the spotlight: the U.S. government is sitting on diplomatic records of extraordinary geopolitical relevance, and it may take over a decade to release them -...
Between October 2023 and March 2025, the Australian government approved hundreds of shipments to Israel, many of which appear routine - rice, biscuits, medical supplies. But a deeper analysis of the declassified export document released under FOIA (FA 25/03/01953)...
