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Report: FOIA exemption use increases, processing time decreases

Federal agencies are more quickly processing Freedom of Information Act requests, but the speed of processing doesn't mean agencies are more transparent. A comparison of 2008 to 2010 FOIA data at 15

Spotlight: CIA releases invisible ink formula

Got a secret message? You can now utilize an once highly secret invisible ink recipe from World War I, which the CIA got around to declassifying and releasing publically on April 19. "When historical

OMB Watch pines for the OIRA that could be

A new report from independent watchdog OMB Watch criticizes the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs for not following its own dictates of openness and transparency. OIRA, located

Who's visiting Vivek Kundra?

Now that about a year's worth of White House visitor logs are online, we got to wondering who's been in to see Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra and where the visitors are from. Finding

Lessons learned from the leaked DOJ Nazi report

Little in the 600-page secret Justice Department history on Nazis in America is shockingly new and in fact much of it reflects well on the United States. Justice founded in 1979 the Office of Special

Obama gets mixed grades on transparency

Everyone in government knows that President Obama is trying to make the federal government transparent. But with every success, there have been problems. An annual report card that measures the level