In a clear victory for transparency, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White today ordered the government to release more records about the lobbying campaign to provide immunity to the telecommunications firms that participated in the National Security Agency (NSA)’s warrantless surveillance program. The government has been ordered to provide the records to the Electronic Frontier…
Tag: FOIA
ACLU seeks records about laptop searches at the border
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit today demanding records about the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)’s policy of searching travelers’ laptops without suspicion of wrongdoing. The lawsuit was filed under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to learn how CBP’s policy, issued last year, has impacted the civil liberties of travelers during…
EFF demands intelligence agencies’ reports
Lawsuit Seeks Public Disclosure of Oversight Records Amidst New Questions About Accountability San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit today against the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and a half-dozen other federal agencies involved in intelligence gathering, demanding the immediate release of reports about potential misconduct. EFF filed suit under the Freedom of…
Court upholds privacy of investigators and eyewitnesses
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals published its decision in Lahr v. NTSB this week. The case concerns privacy exemptions to FOIA requests, and arose over a dispute about the cause of the Trans World Airlines Flight 800 (“TWA Flight 800”) mid-air explosion off the coast of Long Island that killed all 230 people on…