‘Burdensome’ transparency? US agency wants to ignore FOIA requests, in Americans’ best interests

The US Department of the Interior seeks to reserve the right to ignore any FOIA requests from the public that it deems too “burdensome” to fulfil. The move amounts to censorship and is a crackdown on transparency, critics argue. Claiming that it is overwhelmed by the volume of requests from journalist and the general public, […]

FOIA lawsuit seeks docs on tarmac meeting between Loretta Lynch & Bill Clinton

A conservative watchdog group is suing the US Justice Department over records related to the private meeting of former Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton as Hillary Clinton was under investigation during the 2016 campaign. On Wednesday, Judicial Watch announced they had filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the […]