1 post published by Catharine Paik during August 2024| UNREDACTED: The National Security Archive Blog
Last month, the website that hosted every edition of the National Climate Assessment went dark, marking another egregious instance of disappeared climate data and resources under the current Trump administration. Within days of this erasure, Texas’s Kerr County saw unprecedented flooding, leaving many dead and injured. The timing of the events–alongside the administration’s recent cuts […]| UNREDACTED: The National Security Archive Blog
Image Source: The current declassification system is a “crisis that undermines both our national security and government transparency,” according to Senator Gary Peters (D-MI). On July 9, Peters, w…| UNREDACTED: The National Security Archive Blog
Dr. David Morens is sworn in before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic hearing on May 22, 2024. Photo copyright Andrew Harnik. According to subpoenaed emails released last week by a House Oversight Committee investigation, a former FOIA public liaison at the National Institute of Health advised colleagues on how to sidestep federal […]| UNREDACTED
Federal agencies must prepare to integrate artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities while continuing to ensure government transparency, according to the March 14, 2024 panel hosted…| UNREDACTED
The National Security Archive, working with our partners at ProQuest, is publishing a new compilation of documents highlighting the most important national security issues faced by the Carter admin…| UNREDACTED
The National Security Archive’s Chile Documentation Project is wrapping up a notable year, as project director Peter Kornbluh continues to draw significant media attention to the 50th anniversary o…| UNREDACTED
Henry Kissinger’s death renews global attention to the paper trail of secret documents recording his policy deliberations. Famous for initiatives including détente with the USSR, the opening to Chi…| UNREDACTED
Special Presidential Climate Envoy John Kerry testifies on the State Department’s climate agenda on July 13, 2023. Photo copyright Tierney L. Cross. The United States will not pay climate rep…| UNREDACTED
A fully armed MQ-9 Reaper taxis down a runway in Afghanistan in November 2007. Reapers and Predators were the two types of drones used during U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan. On March 17th of this y…| UNREDACTED
State Department Launches AI Pilot Program for FOIA Processing Federal News Network reports that the State Department is “experimenting with automation” to improve its FOIA work. Of specific intere…| UNREDACTED