The NSA is Still Wiretapping. And We’re Surprised?

I hate to say it, but, I told you so…

Just the other day, when I was writing about the case of Jewel v. NSA (and responding to the Columbia Journalism Review’s criticism that no one was covering this important case about warrantless wiretapping), I remarked that while More…

I Was Wrong, CJR Was Misleading, and We All Missed the Bigger Story

After my last post about the Columbia Journalism Review’s post on Friday lamenting that most of the media was missing the story on Obama’s disturbing reliance on the so-called “state secrets privilege”, CJR staff writer Clint Hendler, who wrote that Friday post, wrote me to tell me that More…

Updated: CJR Needs to Read More Journalism

Update: I wrote a second post on this topic after talking with the CJR reporter. Here it is.

Reading this post in the Columbia Journalism Review over the weekend, I had to wonder whether what was supposed to be the nation’s premier journalism review hasn’t actually stopped More…

Obama Issues Executive Order on FOIA and Secrecy

Although it’s not yet available on the White House Website, President Obama has reportedly issued an order aimed at reversing the secrecy policies of the Bush administration.

Former Bush administration Attorney General John Ashcroft encouraged information officers to vigorously search all the Freedom of Information Act exemptions More…