Archive News Alerts

Check here for press releases and notices about the National Security Archive, plus public announcements about major document declassifications, government policy shifts, court decisions, or congressional legislation.
Holder Responds to Rosemary Award
Washington, DC, March 12, 2012 – Attorney General Eric Holder kicked off Sunshine Week 2012 by rehashing widely discredited statistics released by the Department of Justice after it was awarded the…
The Pakistani Taliban's Coming Divide: How the Death of Its Leader Could Be Bad for the United States
Washington, DC, February 3, 2012 – As the U.S. searches for opportunities to negotiate with the Taliban while simultaneously targeting key Taliban leaders with drone strikes, a new article published…
NSArchive's Kate Doyle wins Prestigious ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism
Washington, DC, February 3, 2012- Kate Doyle, director of the Evidence Project at the National Security Archive, and Fredy Peccerelli, the forensic anthropologist of the Fundaciуn de Antropologнa…
Spy Thriller E-Book Features National Security Archive
Washington, DC, December 22, 2011- The new E-Book series by bestselling thriller writer James Grady features the National Security Archive as the scene of a key plot sequence, and also as the…
New Book on the Peril of Nuclear Weapons Highlights the Archive's Nuclear Vault
Washington, DC, March 25, 2011 - Ron Rosenbaum's new book, How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III, praises the National Security Archive's Nuclear Vault as an "astonishing…
Sundance Premiere Highlights Guatemala Human Rights Work
Washington, DC, January 28, 2011 - A new documentary film about human rights in Guatemala featuring National Security Archive senior analyst Kate Doyle will have its world premiere at the Sundance…
Archive Director Tom Blanton decries "Wikimania"
Washington, DC, December 16, 2010 - Efforts to tighten the secrecy system and crackdown on leakers and the media will be "fundamentally self-defeating," according to Thomas Blanton, executive…
New Archive Research Center Opens, Honors Washington Philanthropist Smith Bagley
Washington, DC, December 9, 2010 - Friends and family of the late Smith Bagley joined the National Security Archive staff and board on December 9 to dedicate and celebrate the new Smith Bagley…
New Obama Order Standardizes and Limits Pseudo-Secrets, Follows Recommendations from Open Government Advocates and the 2006 Archive FOI Audit
Washington D.C., November 4, 2010 – President Obama’s new Executive Order on “Controlled Unclassified Information” issued today builds on recommendations from open government groups and the findings…
Archive Director Takes on Stephen Colbert!
Washington, DC, July 29, 2010 - National Security Archive Director Tom Blanton made a guest appearance on “The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central on Tuesday, July 27, to discuss Wikileaks’ release of…
2010 Rosemary Award for Worst Open Government Performance Goes to Federal Chief Information Officers' Council
Washington, DC, March 12, 2010 - The Rosemary Award for worst open government performance, named after President Nixon’s secretary who erased 18 Ѕ minutes of a crucial Watergate tape, this year goes…
National Security Archive and White House Reach Agreement for Restoration of Missing Bush White House E-mails
Washington, DC, December 14, 2009 - The National Security Archive (the Archive), Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, the White House and the National Archives and Records…
Know Thine Enemy: Why The Taliban Cannot Be Flipped
Washington, DC, November 2, 2009 - As Vice President Biden and other high-ranking U.S. officials contemplate a policy of compromise with the Taliban in order to induce them to turn against al-Qaeda,…
Archive General Counsel Testifies before Senate Judiciary Committee on FOIA
Washington, DC, September 30, 2009 - At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today on “Advancing Freedom of Information in the New Era of Responsibility,” Archive General Counsel Meredith Fuchs…
CIA Inspector General Report Exposes Torture as U.S. Policy
Washington D.C., August 25, 2009 - Today, the National Security Archive posted a side-by-side comparison of two very different versions of a 2004 report on the CIA's "Counterterrorism…
National Security Inspectors General Release Critique of Warrantless Surveillance Program
Washington, DC, July 10, 2009 - Today’s release of a report by several agency inspectors general reinforces the National Security Archive’s argument in our Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that the…
Archive Submits Comments on Obama Administration Declassification Policy
Washington, DC, June 30, 2009 - The Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB) yesterday launched a historic Declassification Policy Forum to gather public input as part of an ongoing review of…
Air Force audit finds agency lacks basic systems to comply with the Freedom of Information Act
Washington, DC, June 18, 2009 - A report issued by the Air Force Audit Agency that was released to the National Security Archive this week identifies significant mismanagement in the Air Force…
Archive Testifies to House Oversight Committee About Challenges Facing National Archives
Washington, DC, May 21, 2009 – At a hearing today focusing on the National Archives and Records Administration and the selection of a new Archivist, National Security Archive General Counsel Meredith…
White House Agrees to Share Information in an Effort to Resolve Archive's E-mail Lawsuit
Washington, DC, April 14, 2009 - The plaintiffs and defendants in the pending lawsuit seeking restoration of millions of missing White House e-mails and the installation of an effective e-mail…