Obama touts release of Secret Service logs but data has huge gaps

On President Obama’s first full day in office, a White House news release announced that the president was “instruct[ing] all members of his

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The State Department uses retired Foreign Service officers to help determine what internal documents and memos can be released for Freedom o

In a victory for advocates of government transparency, Congress has voted to repeal a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) exemption for the Se

Despite promises for more government openness, the Obama administration actually approved fewer Freedom of Information Act requests for fede

To mark Sunshine Week, open-government groups are assessing President Barack Obama’s pledge to make the federal bureaucracy more open and le

PaperTrail, as our name implies, delights in accessing government records and reports. Now, to celebrate the mid-point of Sunshine Week, her

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