Classified records

The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. this week decided to exclude the public from oral arguments concerning the…

The Obama administration is striving for a more transparent government but faces a number of practical problems in getting there,…

As part of a nearly three-year-old Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, the U.S. Department of Justice was ordered by a federal…

An Army historian today told a government declassification group that the Army is not enforcing its record-keeping policies and that…

The Navy is now instructing its personnel who classify records to consider ways they might group ordinarily unclassified records together…

A former federal air marshal has been dealt a major blow in his quest to regain his job after being fired for…

A sheriff's deputy in North Carolina posed as a Newsweek reporter to coax an anonymous source out of a local…

Asking a court to keep certain documents secret must be done publicly, a San Diego federal judge ordered June 3…

Judge Marilyn G. Diamond gave the New York Police Department 60 days to turn over a database of hundreds of…

The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., has reaffirmed the need for lawyers representing detainees being held at Guantanamo…