National Security Archive news from FierceGovernmentIT

A July 28 revision by the Defense Department to its Freedom of Information Act directive incorporates the "presumption in favor of disclosure" first called for by President Barack Obama on his first Read more...

Activists decried during a Senate hearing March 15 a lack of progress in federal Freedom of Information Act responsiveness despite Obama administration policies meant to foster a climate of Read more...

About half of federal agencies have taken steps required by a White House Freedom of Information Act memo issued a year ago, says a March 14 report from the National Security Archive at George Read more...

A federal government in the clutches of "Wikimania" has harmed itself by restricting its personnel from reading leaked State Department cables made available by Wikileaks, testified Thomas Blanton, Read more...

After releasing a heavily censored version of an internally-prepared report on U.S. Nazi-hunting operations, in response a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, the Justice Department now finds that Read more...

The George W. Bush White House electronic archive system failed to capture 83 percent of emails on 21 days between September 2003 and August 2005, according two Washington, D.C. watchdog groups. As Read more...

The case of the missing Bush-era emails has finally been solved. The White House and two nonprofit groups announced a settlement Monday in a lawsuit over 22 million emails that were missing during Read more...