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Exclusive: VICE Data Shows Virtually No London Cops Get Fired for Complaints of Assault
Our FOI request shows that the chances of getting a London police officer sacked for an alleged assault are more or less zero.
The CIA Just Released Declassified Documents Related to the 9/11 Attacks
The CIA released declassified versions of five internal documents “related to the Agency’s performance in the lead-up to the attacks.”
What We Can Learn About Prince Charles from His Letters to Politicians
There's a lot more to the Prince of Wales than a love of old buildings and Patagonian fish.
UK Cops Stole a Dead Baby's Identity to Spy on Protest Groups
London's Metropolitan Police has been forced to make a general apology, but has maintained that it cannot tell the individual families whose children's identities it stole.
Indonesia Did Terrible Things in East Timor — and Australia Doesn't Want You to Know About Them
Australia's government is fighting the release of documents that could shed light on the deaths of more than 200,000 people during Indonesia's occupation of East Timor.
The UK's Spy Agency Is Even More FOIA-Proof Than the NSA
GCHQ has a blanket exemption from Freedom of Information requests, so one privacy organisation is taking its request to the European Court of Human Rights.
Why All the Snowden Docs Should Be Public: An Interview with Cryptome
Cryptome's creators want all of the leaked NSA documents to be released, not just at the discretion of journalists.
Canada Is Getting More Secretive With Protected 'Public Information'
Transparency and access to public information from the Canadian government could take awhile, even as many as several years.
The NYPD Is FOIA-Proof
The NYPD records office is notorious among reporters for being about as transparent as a bank vault.
Reading 'Born Again' in Jail
I’ve spent the last year or so in a federal lock-up awaiting trial on charges that have been duly analyzed elsewhere. Long story short: I’m facing decades in prison...