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Has been many things, hoping to be a few more. Lurks on #FOIA, finds dumb things in the CIA/FBI archives. Hit me up at jpat.brown@gmail.com

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Sunlight for Sale: New Study Exposes Old Flaws in the Freedom of Information Act

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By JPat Brown
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Was Scalia right about FOIA and its use and misuse? In the March/April 1982 issue of Regulation, the policy periodical then published by the American Enterprise Institute, a 46-year-old University of Chicago law professor (and editor of the magazine) by the name of Antonin Scalia offered his thoughts on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Though originally signed into law in 1966, FOIA had been revitalized in 1974 by post-Watergate amendments that aimed to give it some real teeth.
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Bush’s Cake and FOIA Red Tape: A Whimsical Look at a Serious Transparency Issue

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By JPat Brown
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The practice of actually using the laws intended to promote transparency illustrates just how broken the process of legal disclosure can be. Government transparency earned a rare victory this week. Arkansas’s Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s attempts to strongly restrict her state’s Freedom of Information law received strong pushback, and may even result in that state enshrining transparency in its constitution.
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authors under surveillance

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By JPat Brown, Michael Morisy Verified
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The books that show espionage agents are not the most subtle literary critics RNEST HEMINGWAY banning Most snoops are not very good readers. They sometimes get basic facts wrong. In one file MI5, Britain's domestic-intelligence agency, adds an extra "e" to "Orwell" (spelling it "Orewell") and mistitles his book "Down and Out in Paris and London" as "A Down and Out in London and Paris".
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