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BBC to put its radio and TV archives on the Web for free

Paul Krassner reveals the history of The Realist

Forgotten lessons of Marie Curie revealed

Vatican told bishops to cover up sex abuse

Troops wounded in action not listed among casualties

Deportation hearing kept open

Bush unscathed by investigations. Here's why

Scientists had warned of weak power grid

Bush OK'd Niger statement at NSC meetings

US appoints overseer to control media in Iraq

US officials are lying about suicide attempts at Guantanamo prison

Homeland Security Dept's research arm puts lid on contracts

Release of anthrax report sought

US official said it was "patently false" but US forces did use napalm in Iraq

Iraq: Educators edit lessons of Hussein from textbooks

Military rescinds order to restrict reporters' access

RJ Reynolds refuses SEC request for documents

Online document search reveals secrets

FEC appeals ban on releasing documents

California jails man for disclosing Website security hole

3rd Circuit: N.J. can post sex offenders' addresses online

Illinois Governor signs open government legislation

Politics & Science

Agent Orange, sprayed by Americans during the war, still sickening Vietnamese

Border Patrol rescinds controversial memo

Defense Dept releases selected aquisition reports

Texas city to pay newspaper $99,000 in open-records dispute

Hillary pretends she won't censor Clinton's museum

Group speaks of Japanese WWII germ warfare tests

Austrian archives reveal Nazi military role of Schwarzenegger's father

UK: MI6 advertises for spies

One zap, and your computer is dead

Investigators mum on Janklow crash details

Polygrapher teaches how to rig exam

Revealing hidden places: The Cryptome eyeballing map series

Nixon's Mexico tapes

hidden history: Poland joined Hitler in dismembering Czechoslovakia

Microsoft's really hidden files

Dept of Energy: Inspector General reports

Compendium of lost words

Never-heard Elvis song set for release

Germany tipped CIA about 9/11 pilot in March 1999

Supreme Court lets man go to jail for selling a comic book

Untold story: US newspapers ignore Iraqi civilian deaths

$20,000 bonus to Energy official who agreed on bogus nuke claim

Complete mirror of Pentagon's deleted "terrorism futures" Website

Congress to restrict use of Special Ops

Transportation Security Administration in "witch hunt," air marshals say

Civil Liberties Watch

document: Dose Safety Margin Enhancement for Chemical Incapacitation and Less-Than-Lethal Targeting [PDF format]

Interview with man sentenced to prison for his Website
And: More info, including the portion of the site that sent him to jail
And: Raisethefist mirror site causing controversy

Files show Boston Archdiocese paid $21 million in abuse cases

Controversial Pentagon office gets a makeover

Drug safety labeling changes, April 2003

Arianne Huffington paid little income tax

Katherine Harris confiscates pamphlets with her voting record

UK: Inquiry refuses to release documents

UK: Jail threat over racist word

Nordic call to erase athletic records

CIA University's Kent Center occasional papers

Nuclear weapons stats

Report warns of sex slavery in South Korea

Justice Dept rejected idea of joining Texas dispute

Japanese troops in China wrote antiwar letters despite censors, archive reveals

US clamps secrecy on warnings before 9/11

Govt wants to close immigration proceedings in Detroit

DOE seeks law that could tighten Yucca secrecy

UK: The dossier is damned again

Accused scientist says letter links to anthrax mailers

Ariel Sharon's son told to disclose documents

FBI targets Net phoning

GAO releases stinging report on Privacy Act compliance

EPA misled public after 9/11 [more]

Non-public report finds threat alerts in color code baffle public

Judge penalizes Unocal for late submission of documents

Newspaper seeks access to sealed Enron hearing transcript

Cal Poly student punished for posting a constitutionally-protected flier

Justice guides federal agencies on Web rules

Digitizers obliterate law firms' paper trail

Forged documents detailing uranium sale were full of errors

FOI law requires photocopies, not reprints, of photos

Faith-based fudging

Declassified documents mark anniversary of 1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty

Planned terror attack on Santa classified by CIA

Unabomber asks US govt to return papers

Housekeeper says she'll publish blank chapter in Ramsey book

UK: Fishing is irrelevant, says leaked report

Vatican document orders coverup of clergy's sex crimes

Bio-lab secrets in dispute [more]

Wolfowitz admits Iraq not involved in 9-11, no ties to al-Qaeda
Earlier: Bush admits the same thing

Florida's new counterterrorism database offers law agencies faster access to Americans' personal records

DC, 4 states to share law enforcement, other records

Executive Order puts Iraq oil dealings above the law

Banks moved billions to shelter income from taxes

Pentagon makes moves to contain complaints from US troops in Iraq

Company fined $6,000
for answering customer's question: "Is any of this stuff made in Israel?"

The Profit: The movie Scientology won't let you see

eBay bans art that satirizes the Bush Administration

report: An Attack on Nonprofit Speech: Death By a Thousand Cuts

Oyez! The Supreme Court, now on MP3

Hollywood pornsters indicted In Pittsburgh

Man sentenced to prison for his Website
And: More info, including the portion of the site that sent him to jail
And: Raise the Fist as it currently stands

Senators appeal decision to withhold the 28 pages of Congress' 9/11 report

Treasury Dept to refuse Senate a list of Saudi suspects

NRO in crisis: America's secret spy satellites are costing you billions, but they can't even get off the launch pad

How Bush's Pioneers and Rangers spend their own money at election time

A fight for free access to medical research

Saudi govt provided aid to 9/11 hijackers, sources say

White House 'delayed 9-11 report'

Some 9/11 families reject federal fund and sue

White House, CIA kept key portions of report classified
And: White House won't declassify Saudi material in 9/11 report

Judicial Watch to seek redacted pages from 9/11 report

Pentagon scraps terror betting plans
Earlier: Pentagon Prepares a Futures Market on Terror Attacks [more]
Plus: Images from the deleted "terrorist futures" site

Images of the forged Nigeria "uranium" documents

Bill would hold Defense Dept’s “Terrorism Information Awareness” program, others accountable

US colonel kidnaps, holds family of Iraqi general hostage

UK: Ministry of Defence tries to burn documents about Dr. Kelly [more]

Transportation Security Agency admits it keeps blacklist of travelers
And: US anti-war activists hit by secret airport ban

Bush stops using phrase "weapons of mass destruction"

Judge finds EPA in contempt for e-document purge

Survey: Support for First Amendment up

Death of a dirty fighter
And: Legendary, ear-collecting CIA officer dies

Verizon: The largest accounting scandal in history

Panel to release data on molester priests

Air Force bars Boeing from future rocket work for stealing competitor's documents

Researcher publishes first measurements of "freebase" nicotine in the smoke of commercial cigarettes

Judge orders Interior Dept to shut off Internet connections

Military wife rebuked for email

Columbia documents released by NASA in response to FOIA requests

Ohio conviction for fictional journal overturned

Secret Service upset about pro-Bush political cartoon

California Democrats' hush-hush talk broadcast live

New York: 3 million 'sealed' records open to public

See if your file-sharing username is mentioned in any lawsuits

New info on US plans to use nukes in Vietnam

Hiroshima study to help set safety levels for radiation exposure

Japan: Victim of US bomb test breaks silence

primary doc: Audience Testing of "Smoking & Health: the Need to Know"

Netherlands: Cigarette ingredients to be made public

photos: Govt snuff shots of Hussein brothers

photo: Bush desecrates US flag

Website alters, then removes Holocaust photo

Harvard to post over a million Nuremberg Trial documents

Leader of Germany's reformed communist party was Stasi spy

Ancient Egyptians "airbrushed" out of history one of their most humiliating defeats in battle

Stasi files reveal Berlin airport sitting on live bombs

Home Economics Archive

Missing 1913 Liberty Head nickel appears

Book tells how John Wayne survived Soviet assassination

Marvel Comics scraps mutant superhero Diana

Speedy Gonzales: Banned in the USA

Independent 9-11 panel seeks documents

Probing 9/11

Report cast doubt on Iraq-Al Qaeda connection

What the Pentagon doesn’t want us to know about depleted uranium

False terrorism tips to FBI uproot the lives of suspects

Feds want FBI files on doctor sealed

Senator Levin's statement on CIA's sharing of intelligence on WMD with the UN

US clouds Iraqi civilian deaths

FCC Chairman Michael Powell runs venture capital firm that claims it’s private

Senator Kerry wanted to attack Iraq over WMDs in 1997

Senator Graham quiet about his role in creating Patriot Act

DOJ report in HTML: The September 11 Detainees: A Review of the Treatment of Aliens Held on Immigration Charges in Connection with the Investigation of the September 11 Attacks

Iraq will go down as the war when journalists seemed to become a target

NASA lets Congress see secret interviews

Ashcroft asks media to sell public on Patriot Act

Bioterrorism project falls into intelligence gap

Press runs White House photos

Agent turned author defies CIA

FOX tells parody site to cease and desist

Privacy advocate posts partial Social Security Numbers of California lawmakers

The Texas clemency memos

report: The Internet Under Surveillance: Obstacles to the Free Flow of Information Online

report: Compilation of Intelligence Laws and Related Laws and Executive
Orders of Interest to the National Intelligence Community

Argentina: Children of the disappeared step forth

How email is wrecking our national archive

The campaign to criminalize criticism of Israel

Falwell gets rights to domain names of parody sites
And:
Jerry Falwell parody site

eBay security chief turns Website into arm of the law

Papers indicate Texas DPS unhelpful in inquiry

Chief Moose steps down after book clash

Project aims to put all scientific articles online for free

Jesus box is a fake

A history of fakery in American journalism

United States Attorneys' Manual

Book reveals personal histories of Stasi rule

Wreck of the HMS Beagle discovered

9/11 families asking hard questions

A survey of projects counting civilians killed by the war in Iraq
And: US clouds Iraqi civilian deaths

US won't probe secret Iraqi documents

Senate closes hearings to probe Iraq intelligence

Republican lawmakers oppose official inquiry on WMD in Iraq

Lawmakers take aim at excessive govt secrecy

US & UK intel agencies expanding use of assassination

Bioterrorism project falls into intelligence gap

NASA lets Congress see secret interviews

Is a CEO dumping stock? Check SEC Online

Media publish handout photos from the White House

Excerpt from 1992 draft, "Defense Policy Guidance"

Whistleblower goes to prison for releasing cops’ domestic-violence records

Graham quiet about his major role on Patriot Act

Spy agencies abuse Freedom of Info exemptions, but Congress may grant new one to NSA

Gag rules? Bloggers report anyway

Public Citizen to defend SavageStupidity.com co-founders against $500,000 lawsuit by Michael "Savage"

The News No One Dares to Cover

UK govt accused of deception over ID card statistics

UK: Members of Parliament to name and shame "rogue" newspaper editors

Canadian spy agency erased tapes regarding terrorist bombing of passenger jet

photos: Chinese torturing Christians

photos: Military's civilian surveillance vehicles

Opposition research seen as key by presidential rivals

hidden history: The Terror of 1778

Foreign Relations, 1969-1976, Volume I, Foundations of Foreign Policy

report: Executive Privelege Revived? Secrecy and Conflict During the Bush Presidency

primary document: Sentencing statement of James Kopp, murderer of Dr. Bernard Slepian

FCC votes to allow media monopolies

report: The September 11 Detainees: A Review of the Treatment of Aliens Held on Immigration Charges in Connection with the Investigation of the September 11 Attacks [Acrobat format]
And: press release

Ashcroft wants even more "anti-terror" powers

Bush trying to hide 9/11 information, Graham says

Justice Dept blocks release of Wen Ho Lee report

Top NY Times editors resign

Recording of a police sergeant interrogating a man moments after police shoot him 5 times, paralyzing and blinding him

TARS: Truth About Reporting of SARS

US hasn't probed secret Iraqi documents

Government will launch news network to counter 'anti-American' image

Kucinich calls for release of unedited video of Lynch rescue

Collection of official quotes regarding Iraq's alleged WMD

Lawsuit alleges companies sold contaminated blood overseas

"This American Life" on the price-fixing conspiracy at food giant Archer Daniels Midland

US companies are operating in Iran

Italy: McDonald's using lawsuit to punish critic

UK: House of Lords says rape suspects should be granted right to anonymity

Jesse Ventura in "skirmish" with author of expose
And: The book that caused Ventura to lose it

California court rules that comic book villains based on musician brothers protected

Publisher pulls plagiarized book about atomic bomb creation

Einstein Archives Online

World's tallest tree is cooked alive

Classified: Censoring the report about 9-11?

And: Showdown looms over 9/11 reports

And: Congress, White House clash over declassifying 9/11 report

Contrarian 9/11 book cancelled by major publisher

White House insider cleans up Bush's image on film

US insiders say Iraq intel deliberately skewed

And: New questions about US intelligence regarding Iraq's weapons of mass terror

And: General calls intelligence 'wrong'

And: Wolfowitz's comments revive doubts over Iraq weapons

Supreme Court allows secret deportation hearings

Bioweapons unearthed in Maryland

Revealed: Iraq war plan left troops exposed

Protesters challenge proposed media merger rules

Internal email at NY Times reveals highly biased source for Judith Miller's WMD stories [more]

The NY Times' addiction to anonymous sources

Pentagon seeks to sort, store lifetime experience

The war on David Nelson(s)

leaked document: National Security Presidential Directive 23

Texas Dept of Public Safety tape has 5-hour gap, but it's an accident

Drug giant may be indicted for destroying documents in court case

Enron subsidiary finds buried documents

FDA Website on postmarketing studies

UK: All intelligence info to be shared among agencies

BBC refuses to cut footage of dead soldiers from Iraq documentary

Where Did That Copy Go?

Another plagiarized history book

NY: Academic freedom bill would deny public view of college texts

Mussolini's last note found in Milan

Victorian masterpiece turns up in Rocky Mountain log cabin

Picasso's police files released [more]

British Library releases rare recordings of Browning, Tennyson, Kipling, others

Bush/Cheney spam

Barbra Streisand sues over aerial photos of home

Classified 9/11 report details how Saudi officials helped plot

9/11 Commission told of cover-ups before attacks

Lawmakers call for new panel, independent of 9/11 Commission

DARPA wants your life indexable and searchable
And: A spy machine of DARPA's dreams

Pentagon defends "Terrorism Information Awareness" surveillance program
And: Pentagon details new surveillance system
And: TIA would access 50 times more data than Library of Congress
Plus: Report to Congress Regarding the Terrorism Information Awareness Program

The TV networks that will benefit from the new FCC rules on media ownership have been keeping their viewers in the dark about the changes
And: Stop the FCC

Well Connected: A detailed expose of the tellecommunication industry and its govt lackeys

States are closing many previously open records

Lawmakers take aim at excessive govt secrecy

Dubious Secrets: Declassified documents show excessive secrecy, arbitrary and subjective classification decisions

Congressman introduces legislation to require all voting machines to produce a voter-verified paper trail

NASA craftily puts Columbia inquiry behind closed doors

California monitored war protestors

Judicial Watch investigation prompts GAO to expand anthrax probe

Documents: Bayer knowingly sold unsafe drug overseas

Texas Dept of Safety destroys records of search for runaway Democrats
And: Grand jury probes into shredded DPS documents

Secret Service raids house over Website
And: The Website in question

Energy Dept: Ninth Report on Inadvertent Releases of Restricted Data and Formerly Restricted Data

More Columbine files released
And: DA's files on killers released

CNN admits misleading viewers about guns

Document: Oil wars Pentagon's policy since 1999

Website: Sourced Reporting

Robert McNamara reveals surprising things in documentary

Spying 101: The RCMP's Secret Activities at Canadian Universities, 1917-1997

Foreign Relations, 1952-1954: Guatemala

CIA's declassified documents on Guatemala

New report reveals half a million German civilians killed by US/British forces in final weeks of WWII

Australia: Internet feud as health service pushes to delete past

Man questioned for photographing Orwellian cameras in UK supermarket

CIA bureaucrat gripes that "secrecy is under sttack"

Another Danish newspaper picks up the MemHole's story about the Evening Standard's doctored photo

1995 memo warned Sen. Hatch of America's terror vulnerability

Washington Post runs full-page ad containing info the media should be reporting

Man jailed for leaking police documents on abusive cops

State denies newspapers' request for cities with SARS cases

Media win partial access to Moussaoui hearing, documents

Court denies media greater access to documents in Terry Nichols trial

Critical letter taken off govt's mining Website

Cigarette company documents outline strategy to derail global tobacco treaty

Bush reveals he's worth up to $22 million, Cheney up to $86.4 million

Bank of England must disclose BCCI documents

Tape of environmental conference subpoenaed

Bilderberg conference taking place now in Paris

US Olympic Committee gives IOC data about 1988 drug tests

Reporters seek access to interviews caught on wiretaps

Privatizing water: What the European Commission doesn’t want you to know

6th Circuit reinstates Rosa Parks' lawsuit against rappers

Spies in the Vatican

Brigitte Bardot to be sued over opinions in her book

The man who 'banned in Boston'

Michael Isikoff says Saudi officials are named as accomplices in Congress' classified 9/11 report

New media ownership rules proposed at FCC; Large companies could increase market holdings

Key details lacking on post-9/11 billions given to Pentagon

New Iraqi TV complains of US censorship

US General may censor Iraqi TV station's programs

35 annual reports of special concern slated for deletion under the Defense Transformation for the 21st Century Act of 2003

Proposed FOIA exemption for National Security Agency

France says it was victim of US disinformation campaign

Senator John Kerry a member of Skull & Bones
Related MemHole story: Only Video of a Skull and Bones Ritual

The unseen war

The Blair Watch Project

Ex-President of Florida Senate jailed for violating state's open-govt "sunshine" laws

British killer agent Stakeknife named

Ministers always knew McGuinness did not fire first shot, Bloody Sunday inquiry told
And: Martin McGuinness wiretap transcripts

Report: UK doctors took 20,000 brains without permission
And: The report in full

JFK was cocaine user, new book claims

The China Syndrome

Ad uses photo of Rumsfeld and Saddam shaking hands
And: See the ad
Plus: Learn more about the photo

Alarm raised on world's disappearing languages

Historian says Goya's "Black Paintings" are fakes

Pair of Goyas found by accident fetch $4M

September 11 Showdown

Senator Graham may be sitting on 9/11 smoking guns

US Army patents biological weapons delivery system,
violates bioweapons convention

NY Times reporter who resigned leaves long trail of deception

Florida to preserve 2000 election ballots

Radical spy plan nearly sneaks through Congress

FBI to fire whistleblower

Lawmakers seek access to NASA testimony

Judge bans anti-tax book

FBI returns unclassified report it took from reporters

NSA releases documentation on polygraph policy

National Archives has given up on filling the Nixon tape gap

UK: Doctors accused of not reporting Seroxat/Paxil suicides

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter crosses New York Times' line of 'strict neutrality'

Excerpt from Thomas Pynchon's foreword to new edition of 1984
And: New Pynchon documentary missing one thing--the author

Consumer organization barred from touring food irradiation facility with other conference attendees

Explanation for Bush's carrier landing altered

Hacking the Xbox dropped by publisher, self-published by author

FBI releases file on American composer Aaron Copland
And: View some of the pages from the file

Judge keeps seal on Peterson court papers

Judge orders court files detailing Tacoma police chief rape allegation unsealed

Scientology's funny photo

Veterans' nuclear exposure underestimated, panel says

The Evelyn Wood of digitized book scanners

The strange case of the two Parents Television Council ads

An Orwellian purge

The Myth of the spat-upon veteran

Hitler's forgotten library

Norwegian newspaper picks up story on Evening Standard's photo manipulation, actually credits The MemHole

Tech books to enter public domain

Found: A Twain play good enough to stage

Copies of unreleased Harry Potter novel found in field

Congressional 9/11 investigation: “Slow-walked and stonewalled”

Hill panel, CIA-led group fight over 9/11 papers
Plus:
9/11 panel will be asked about documents

Freedom of the Press Throughout the World, 2003 Report
And: Predators of Press Freedom

Landmark Freedom of Information Act ruling chides IRS/Treasury for wrongly withholding documents

Recent judicial reprimand of Ashcroft exposes a pattern of gag order and ethics violations

Congress releases previously closed McCarthy hearings

New Jersey records-watchdogs put the bite on secrecy

New Hampshire Supreme Court grants access to photos of persons stopped by police

American Boychoir School abandons lawsuit against Website

UK: Recent releases at the National Archives, April 2003

New book sparks many to look for hidden meanings in famous artwork

Coke pulls swastika-bearing figurine

The BBC has lost almost all of its footage of performances by rock legends, incl the Beatles, the Stones, and Dylan

White House quietly battles to keep Congress' 9/11 report secret

9/11 Probe finally allowed to see documents

Intelligence agencies accuse Bush and Blair of distorting and fabricating evidence in rush to war

Justice Dept alerted to false testimony allegations in McVeigh case, did not tell defense
And:
McVeigh lawyers express ire over letter
And: McVeigh trial bombshell surfaces

State Dept hushed up North Korea's nuclear claims

Justice Dept tracking staff's contact with Congress

New dispute brewing over fate of Florida's 2000 ballots
3 months ago on The MemHole: Florida May Destroy Ballots From 2000 Election

Americans went overseas for war news

Text of MSNBC reporter's speech slamming the media

2002 Wiretap Report

Moussaoui wants Ashcroft to answer his quiz

Large collection of photos and video showing carnage in Iraq

WorldLinkTV airing CIA documentary, Code Name Artichoke
And: complete transcript of documentary

Media wins access to hearing and controversial autopsy report

EPA gags employees on rocket fuel

Calif Attorney General makes energy price-gouging evidence available to public on Internet

Museum's shift of Arctic refuge exhibit gets cold reception
And: The Smithsonian: Pictures of Controversy
And: Website of the photography book's publisher

Media denied access to records gathered for Twins' lawsuit

Australian court rules tobacco company can withhold documents from US Justice Dept

Smithsonian program examines military role in making films
And: Hollywood: The Propaganda Machine

Author to post archive of material from the Bernardo case, Canada's most infamous serial killing case

FDA plans to withdraw outdated draft proposals

Hidden history: Katyn Forest massacre

Hidden history: The worst maritime disaster of all time

Three unreleased Bowie tracks from 1967 unearthed

Rift exposed in 9/11 probe

British Army, police, & intelligence colluded with Loyalists to murder Catholics in Northern Ireland
And: The short version of Scotland Yard's report

Secret Chernobyl archives released
And: Russia and Ukraine bicker over Chernobyl
And: All the documents

Secret US file: Oust regime in Pyongyang

FBI investigating seizure of reporters' material

America’s corporate merchants of death in Iraq

MSNBC reporter: Media filtered realities of war

Interior Dept withheld info from federal judge

Monster.com purges all references to sanctioned countries from resumes
And: Monster.com backpedals somewhat on listings purge

Balancing security of plants with the public's right to know

SavageStupidity.com threatened by Michael Savage's lawyers

CIA denies appeal for STASI files

"Echelon: The Secret Power" documentary reviewed in Variety

NSA to intercept European police communications

Ex-Mossad employee sues the agency

Sugar industry threatens to scupper WHO

Kraft censors talk of tobacco connection at annual shareholders' meeting

Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Report to Congress on Abnormal Occurrences, Fiscal Year 2002

London Daily Mail "ditched rape victim's story"

The military's media

Liberate Iraq's history now!

Germany remembers worst-ever school massacre

Chilling Effects Clearinghouse

Spammers threaten suit after contact info goes on Techdirt.org

National Security and Open Government: Striking the right balance

Conference announcement: The United States, Guatemala, and Latin America: New Perspectives on the 1954 Coup

British Library buys unpublished writings by Virginia Woolf

Lost John Ford western found in French archive

The looting of Iraq's heritage

Lawmaker wants Philip Morris investigated for destroying email
And: Document Destruction by Philip Morris

Homeland Security proposes broad infrastructure secrecy rules

Ruling: Public universities cannot censor student newspapers
More: Court rips Governors State University for censoring paper

Documents show US Olympians had failed drug tests
And: Ex-USOC official says some athletes were allowed to bend the drug rules

Portugese paper receives full CIA report on masscre of Kurds

Re-code.com shuts down after corporate threats

British govt to withhold almost entire report on police collusion in death of Catholic attorney

Maryland police chief fights to write sniper book

CNN posts obituaries for Cheney, Castro, the Pope, and others

General Accounting Office to broadly probe Iraq contracts

US networks agree to serve as Pentagon propaganda tool in Iraq

Air-India documents to be released

Cingular tries to censor employee comments
And: Cellular Dealer Lawsuit Website

Toxic Release Inventory database

MTV refuses to run Adbusters' "uncommercial"

New report shows Agent Orange use 'understated' [more]

The embedded in Iraq: stenography for the Pentagon

Avoiding the war dead during WWI

Military bans media from anti-US protests in Iraq

US marines raid rooms at media hotel in Baghdad

Introduction of Sunshine in Iraq Reconstruction Contracting Act

Justice Department says it can try Moussaoui in open court

Ban on anti-tax book renewed by federal judge

6,300 pieces of Columbine evidence withheld by sheriff's office

Did CNN turn up the boos during Michael Moore's speech?

UK: Tories issue Zimbabwe report Blair withheld

Britain's leading astronomer calls for restriction of scientific research

A diagnosis of fraud at HealthSouth

report: "Sensitive But Unclassified" and Other Federal Security Controls on Scientific and Technical Information: History and Current Controversy [Acrobat format]

translated article: Israel: Missions of Shin Bet Special Operations Unit Viewed

April 19: Tax Freedom Day

South Dakota Governor's office can keep pardon information sealed

UK sends antiquities experts to Iraq

Marine who "escaped death" hoaxed the media

Wal-Mart tells prank Website to cease and desist

New allegations target DNA, bullet analysis at FBI Lab

Modern science ruins prehistoric art

European history sanitized in textbooks

Popular author gives away his fifth novel on the Web

primary document: CIA-created rap song parodies Saddam

Iraqi documents: Russia spied on Blair for Saddam

lost history: Saddam played key role in early CIA assassination plot

Iraqi diplomats destroy documents at embassies worldwide

The dangers in Saddam's 'black files'

US Military issues card deck of Iraq's most wanted
And: See all the cards

3 journalism organizations accuse US govt of war crimes against reporters

Pillagers strip Iraqi museum of treasure; 175,000 artifacts stolen

FBI: Suspect swapped sex for U.S. documents, secrets

CNN's chief news executive: "The News We Kept to Ourselves"
And: CNN chief stands by Iraq omissions

Details given on how Halliburton contract was awarded
And: The letter from the Army Corps of Engineers [Acrobat format]

photo: Wide-angle shot shows small group pulling down Saddam statue in Baghdad

Executive Order 13292 on classified national security info

Columbine Records Review Task Force on hold

Claims and counter claims made during the media war over Iraq

Classified report doubts Bush's Iraq domino theory

House panel tells SEC it will subpoena papers

Dept of Energy stonewalling Congress

House withholding Bulger testimony

Enron's attempt to keep corporate documents confidential fails again

Introducing the Sunshine in Litigation Act

Media request access to appellate court records and oral arguments in Moussaoui case

Universities cannot ask to review student publications

Al-Jazeera broadcasts to US

City of Chicago settles lawsuit with pledge to follow FOI Act

FBI asked to investigate leaked Siebel documents

LA Times runs altered front-page photo

Watergate papers sold for $5 million

UK High Court suppresses documents on cracking Citibank PINs

Some newspapers refuse to run comic strip

Spotting illegal police surveillance

declassified document: NCSC 3 TEMPEST glossary

Secrecy surrounds US plans for Iraq's future

Reporters Without Borders accuses US military of deliberately firing at journalists

States put a leash on information

FERC pulls Enron documents off Website

A secret Pentagon report sketches seven scenarios for taking Baghdad

Twice forced offline by its hosts, Yellow Times is back

On Najaf killings, some news outlets prefer the sanitized version

China withholding true number of people with SARS in Beijing

CIA openness report to be classified?

Judge orders CIA to produce Trulock documents for review

FBI designing vast terrorism database

Congress asks further questions about how Justice Dept is implementing Patriot Act

Librarians use shredder to show opposition to new FBI powers

Homeland Security agents pull Ohio libraries' haz-mat documents

Bodies? What Bodies?

primary document: Defense Information Systems Agency's classification manual [Acrobat format]

primary document: National Imagery and Mapping Agency's classification manual [Acrobat format]

primary document: Congressional confirmation hearing of CIA General Counsel Scott W. Muller

report: Beyond the Balancing Test: National Security and Open Government
in the United States [Acrobat format]

leaked memo: US tells UN delegates not to meet about Gulf War 2

White House request to restrict Clinton pardon data upheld

Thieves take computers containing details on New Mexico radioactive material

Operation Info-Scrub

Corporate homicide

Support oversight of the secret FISA Court

Judge bars media from using name of 10-year-old suspect in child's killing

Pennsylvania won't identify Websites blocked for child porn

9/11 panel begins investigating, at last
And: Undercutting the 9/11 inquiry
And: Website of the 9/11 Probe

Pentagon keeps return of war dead from media

Al-Jazeera refuses to censor horrors of war

Access to presidential records revisited

Dept of Homeland Security accidentally posts "sensitive" warning

US withdraws copies of human rights report due to Israel criticism

Lawyers spar over Enron documents' fate

U.S. seeks to block Moussaoui documents

Supreme Court allows audio taping of affirmative action arguments

Los Angeles Archdiocese tries to shield documents

Restrictions on Condi Rice speech worry Israeli lobbying group

Santa Rosa doctor documents Iraqi civilian casualties

More about the judicial restraint against tax heretic Irwin Schiff

How the New York Times' op-ed page works

Bilderberg to meet in Paris in mid-May

Lost plans for alleged 200-miles-per-gallon carberateur found

RIP: Chuck Hansen, "America's premier collector of nuclear secrets"
And: Hansen's Website

Studio removes peace sign from movie poster

Bush orders a 3-year delay in opening secret documents
And: Release of documents is delayed
And: Text of the executive order

Conflicts abound for 9/11 Probe

Members of 9/11 Probe warn of funding woe

Hackers take down Al Jazeera Website

"Unembedded" reporter pisses off military

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission report on California's powerscam
And: Massive database of raw documents from the investigation
And: FERC response to West Coast energy crisis is late, weak

Allies destroy Iraq's main TV station

Antiquities experts guarding Iraq's treasures

U.S. journos get rare access to hell

8 cops detain Washington Post columnist for asking questions

New York Stock Exchange bars Al Jazeera reporter

Al Jazeera launches English-language site
But: Al Jazaeera English site hacked on first day

Web-hosting company pulls plug on Yellow Times
And: War pictures cause Yellowtimes.Org to be shut down, again

Moussaoui hearing closed to public

2003 UK Big Brother Awards

U.S. ready to rescind Clinton order on govt secrets, will make it easier to keep documents secret
And: Bush order may reclassify documents

Yellow Times forced offline for posting photos of civilian casualties and US POWs

Judge silences anti-tax advocate, tells him to stop selling book

Israel censors news sites
And: Read the letter from Israel's chief military censor

Congressmen suggest censoring war news

CNN forces correspondent to stop blogging from Iraq

FERC to release Enron probe data March 26

Cuba arrests around 20 independent journalists

AP protests govt seizure of unclassified FBI report
And: Senator wants explanation for confiscation of reporters' package

U.S. steps up secret surveillance

Ethic panel blocks publication of Chief Moose's book on sniper-hunt

Satellite photos of Iraq for sale

First govt-wide audit of freedom of information shows mixed impact of Ashcroft memo

UK: Man arrested for owning books

Citizen Access Project

Terror threats prompt states to shrink access to security-related records

Pentagon silence angers reporters

Court forces EPA to release GE discussion records

Freedom to Read Protection Act of 2003

Press not spotlighting government secrecy 'cloak'

Tucson Citizen photographer arrested while shooting campus protest

Leaked NSA training guide

Senators try again to get television cameras in federal courtrooms

Media challenge ban in Canadian serial killer Case

Appeals court releases tape of emergency call

Postal inspector won't release details of mail dumping investigation

FBI to implement electronic records management

BBC rouses anger by 'burying' documentary on Israel

U.S. role revealed in 1998 Colombia bombing

Some ultra-Orthodox Jews ban and burn book on Jewish history

Scholars move to protect 'priceless' Iraqi heritage

Missing Bill of Rights copy recovered

stats: The Coalition of The Willing

stats: Dead Iraqi civilians

NSA asks for new FOIA exemption

Journalists won't be allowed to report during first 24 hours of attack on Iraq

Completely independent reporter will use blog to report directly from Iraq

Ex-CIA officers say Iraq data is being cooked
More: Read their statement

Leaked State Dept report says democracy in Iraq doubtful

USDA to keep some food recall data from US consumers

Richard Perle threatens lawsuit over Hersh article in New Yorker, compares reporter to "terrorist"
More: The article in question

Jailed author of Flight 800 book vindicated

U.S. Foodservice threatens rumor Website

A Common Cause report: Agenda For Secrecy

The impact of Bush linking 9/11 and Iraq
And: 9/11 attack leads to showdown with Saddam
But: Bush flatly declares no connection between Saddam and al Qaeda

Malvo writings found in cell, authorities say
More: Documents taken from Malvo's cell block

Parody painting of Bush torn down, rehung

Electronic Privacy Information Center: Freedom of Information Act Gallery

Fretting about the state of FOIA

Visible and invisible tragedies

The forgotten power of the General Assembly

Germans revisit war's agony, ending a taboo

hidden history: 40 years of the CIA and Iraq

Recently unsealed grand jury minutes detail Polanski's 1977 sex assault

Feds seized unclassified FBI report from journalists, never told them

Senators offer fix for FOIA exemption in the Homeland Security Act

9/11 Probe at a standstill; members still not cleared for classified documents

The Bush administration's unprecedented war on public information

Senators from both parties bash Pentagon for postwar Iraq secrecy

General Franks careless with classified info; no problem, says Pentagon

March 16: Freedom of Information Day

Daniel Ellsberg seeks leaks on Iraq
3 months ago on the MemHole: Daniel Ellsberg calls on people in gov't to leak documents

SF: Undercover cops monitoring peace protesters, documents show

UK: Call to lift veil of secrecy over Dunblane

Foreign Relations of the US, Volume XVII: Near East, 1961-1962

Glasnost on war's looted art

hidden history: Calif. Governor apologizes for forced sterlizations

Mountain deletes half its name for prudes

Pentagon threatens independent reporters in Iraq

Libraries post Patriot Act warnings

Reversal on releasing evidence in 9/11 fake ID case

Daniel Ellsberg: My Thoughts on 'The Pentagon Papers' Movie

Disinfopedia

Bush Admin's budget contains section called "Where Are the Real Space Aliens?"

Rembrandt self-portrait rediscovered after more than 400 years

Pitcher David Wells agrees to $100,000 fine for book

New Hampshire Attorney General's report on pedo-priests and the Cardinals who protect them
More: Report Details Sex Abuse by Priests and Inaction by a Diocese

Documents: Ford hid SUV rollover evidence for decades

Judge orders release of FBI documents

Grand jury orders R.J. Reynolds to hand over tobacco-smuggling documents

NSA organizational chart

Website of the United States Intelligence Community

Project to build database of every person to ever serve in any military

Spain: Helpers enlisted to find Franco victims

UN leaders draw up secret blueprint for postwar Iraq

9/11 Probe stacked with members tied directly to the airline industry

UN launches inquiry into American spying

Vice President's office threatens operator of parody Website
More: Interview with Whitehouse.org's John Wooden
More: The letter
More: The page in question

Senator Leader Frist pulls war poll off his Website
More: Frist Web poll votes show 57% oppose war

Unearthed military secret brings new life to old case

Memo exposes Bush's new green strategy

Congressman inquires about Woodward leaks

Vatican opens pre-war archives

Nukespeak redux

Argentina, a haven for Nazis, balks at opening its files

Gallery of leaflets that are being dropped on Iraq

Interview with new general counsel for National Security Archive

Interview with director of FSB/KGB Archives

Election 2002 Web archive

Foreign Relations of the United States, Vol. XVII: Near East, 1961-1962

Lots of primary documents from Jonestown and the Peoples Temple

Fewer than 30 pygmy rabbits left

Anti-war T-shirts worn by George Michael's musicians likely to be cut from TV show

Declassified docs show that key Supreme Court decision on national security was based on military lies

How the media has downplayed opposition to war on Iraq

Was 9/11 "mastermind" really captured?

"The Effect of Patriot Act II on Newspapers"

Terrorism statistics inflated in New Jersey

primary doc: Draft of "Crimes and Elements for Trials by Military Commission" [Acrobat format]

Report details sex abuse by priests and inaction by a diocese
More: Prosecutors report diocese ignored sex abuse

FBI official denies knowing of uneven discipline, despite memo to contrary

How the mass slaughter of a group of Iraqis went unreported

Cameras barred in US sniper trial

Calif. wants energy-gouging report made public

US authorities subpoena Ahold documents

Bill Gates gives Windows code to China

Dunblane secret documents contain letters by Tory and Labour ministers

Under pressure, Google removes link to page at dark-humor Website
More: The page Google calls "illegal"

Beethoven's lost oboe concerto is reconstructed and performed

Revealed: US plan to spy on UN Security Council members
More: Read the leaked email

9/11 Probe meets for third time in secret; still can't get access to declassified documents

Court overturns jury award to former TV reporter; implies that media have the right to lie

Watch clips from Afghan Massacre, the documentary the US gov't doesn't want you to see
More: Buy the video [The MemHole is not affiliated with this effort and receives no compensation for this link]

Online library wants it all, every book

Media ownership and democratic debate in Japan

Oldest human history is at risk

Section-by-section analysis of Patriot Act II

How the news will be censored in this war
Also: Pentagon ground rules may limit reporting
Also: Pentagon's recipe for propaganda

Big media refusing antiwar ads

Level-4 biolab tried to cover up escape of monkey

Newspaper sues over practice of sealing civil case files

Supreme Court won't hear news media appeal of gag order

Bookseller purges customer records to avoid searches

Bogus Justice Dep't statistics on terrorism cases
More: Read the GAO report [Acrobat format]

Researchers find elevated uranium levels in Afghans
More: Read portions of the ignored report

Senate report: FISA Implementation Failures

Juvenile records released in sniper case

Bush cited report that doesn't exist

Democrats accuse White House of ignoring information requests

UK: Freedom to report court trials being severely restricted

Online slave lawsuits open window to past
More: St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project

NASA recovers Columbia cockpit videotape

Chicago nightclub-stampede video won't be released yet

More on the mysterious .gov site

Citibank gags crypto researchers

Freelance journalist files motion to quash testimony

leaked report: Donahue sacked because he presented a "difficult public face for NBC in a time of war"

declassified: US State Department investigation of Medjugorje Shrine

Cryptome hacked

Island-nation disappears out of the world's sight

Explosive regulations threaten to kill model rocketry

documents: US and Vatican support for the Ustase, Hitler's Croatian Allies

Declassified documents link Peronist Party to Nazi Croatian “Ustasha” treasure

Pioneering scientist 'erased' by Newton

forgotten history: Uranium in Hiroshima A-bomb came from Nazi Germany

forgotten history: Was Stalin murdered to prevent WWIII?

forgotten history: Sir Isaac Newton predicted 2060 apocalypse

Lost oil study of Churchill on display
More: See the oil study

Priest posts nude pic of himself on gay Website

Leaked copy of Patriot Act II shows more plans for police state

Classified doc: Bush approves nuclear response

Leaked Brit intelligence report rejects Iraqi/al-Qaeda link

Relatives say 9/11 facts may stay hidden

Judge orders NYC to release Sept. 11 records [more]

Total Information Awareness: Down, but not out

Bush proposes antiterror database plan

Leading scientific journals agree to censor themselves [more] [the statement]

GAO wimps out; ends fight to get Cheney energy records
More: GOP threats halted GAO Cheney suit
More: Judicial Watch will keep fighting

Bill will make gun database info secret
More: actual language of bill

FBI destroyed possible McVeigh evidence

Leaked UN report estimates effects of war on Iraqi civilians

British Iraq dossier plagiarized from old articles

Supreme Court case could limit FOIA

Yugoslavia no longer exists

Gov't suppressed estimates of civilian causalties in Gulf War I

Vatican opens archives to defend Pius XII

Corporations secretly settle with government

Columbine: 309 pages of intelligence files released

UK: Police investigate pundit for "inciting racial hatred"

Richard Reid's letters remained sealed

The Buying of the President 2004

Washington insiders discuss money's influence in new book

CNN leaves out almost 800 words of Blix transcript

Supreme Court to consider FOIA case involving photos of Vincent Foster

Textbooks said to 'hide' problems with Islam
More: the full report

Gov't finally complies with court order to release US/Chile free-trade pact documents

Putin threatens $8-trillion storehouse of plant genes

Knoxville sheriff fined for lying about public records

Mexico digs at last for truth about 1968 massacre

Aborigine slaughter recorded

Civilians, Spies, and Blue Suits: The Bureaucratic War for Control of Overhead Reconnaissance, 1961-1965

Mysterious purple streak is shown hitting Columbia 7 minutes before it disintegrated

Copyright monopolies

Secret video refers to CIA killing Mugabe

INS workers charged with shredding documents

Defense Dept. won't release freedom of information video

US Forest Service won't release details of employees disciplined for firefighters' deaths

Bank tells court: Files erased by mistake

Newspaper wins access to state's tobacco litigation billing records

Palo Alto breaks ground by disclosing emails between council and staff

Public interest groups call on the IRS to lift veil of secrecy over political activities of non-profits

Leaked WTO documents on "Trade in Services"

Yellow Times back online
Earlier: Yellow Times forced offline

NASA releases tape of final Mission Control conversation from Columbia flight

The case of the mysterious .gov site

The public's need to know in a post-9/11 era

US grapples with its most hated word

Britons face extradition for 'thought crime' on net

Bank apologizes for altering fifth-grader's artwork

Phone call to TV station 39 hours before Challenger disaster warned of sabotage

Hackers view 5 million+ Visa/MasterCard accounts

Discarded computer had confidential medical info

Nixon aide tells of plan to bomb think tank

New Kennedy tapes

Oliver Stone documentary whitewashes Castro

Edward VIII's unheard public appeal to hang on to throne

Secret tapes made by the Queen Mother reveal candid thoughts

South Korean textbook gives credit to Kim Il Sung for combating Japanese colonialism

Documentary forces Danes to confront past

London Gazette puts 350 years of history online

French executioner's notebooks uncover rationalizations of ghoulish career

Asteroid warnings debated

Fox News broadcasts CNN

Trucks erase Peru's land lines of the ancients

Blake's lost art found...but will remain hidden

Unknown Van Gogh painting sold in Tokyo

Arts society's archives go online

Police recover more stolen Beatles tapes

DVD will show only Beatles "reunion"

Paramount pulls shuttle film trailer

Behind the door of Disney's exclusive Club 33

Video release of Afghan Massacre, the documentary the US govt doesn't want you to see [The MemHole is not affiliated with this effort and receives no compensation for this link]

Energy Dept report blasts Los Alamos Lab
More: Read the report [Acrobat format]

Second meeting of 9/11 panel will be closed to the public

Operations "suspended" for Defense Dept's declassification advisory panel

Top Interior official broke law by deleting Indian Trust records

Defense Dept offering admin privileges on dot-mil Websites

Slavery: Disclosure time in Chicago

During Gulf War, military lied to journalists

Presidential Websites whitewash history

One man's quest to expose the truth, and rewrite history

Gulag Archipelago author breaks last taboo of the Revolution

US protects historic sound recordings

Stolen details of 6 million phone users hawked on Moscow streets

First meeting of 9/11 probe will be closed to public [are we surprised?]

Senate blocks funding for Total Information Awareness

Highlights from the Transparency International
Global Corruption Report 2003

memo: Rumsfeld slams Joint Chiefs of Staff

British newspaper wins key secrecy case

The protest-crowd numbers game

Report on master-key copying raises alarm
More: Read the report and related info

Judge won't let Malvo's guardian see police records

Shoe-bomb suspect can't see documents

'News media' FOI fee status awarded public interest group

Reporters Committee urges high court to review order prohibiting juror interviews

Documents hint at South African gov't role in death of Swedish Prime Minister

Documents shed new light on jewel-theft ring run by Chciago cop

Qwest claims documents are protected

Judge sanctions Ford for hiding evidence

Recipes for bioterror: censoring science

statistics: Front-line troops disproportionately white, not black

Long-lost records confirm rising sea level

US media missing new evidence about Genoa violence

Kennedy assassination film gets makeover
More: screenshot

Top-secret history of the KGB (in Russian)

Spies uncover China's history

Rumsfeld wants more info off the Web

GOP Senators on warpath over defense secrecy

Bills: Down with citizen database

Dem Senators question Ashcroft about total surveillance

ACLU presses for full disclosure on govt’s new snoop powers

Dept of Transportation secret spying

Phoenix diocese fights to keep documents secret

Judge denies request to post Compaq documents on Internet

Canadian mining companies try to keep documents from US

UK: Call to publish record of Iraqi abuses

Only online: Murder trial details

Documents seized in United Way skimming case

Corporate sponsorship: The new American filter

DVD player blocks "objectionable" content

Identical pro-Bush letters to the editor run in newspapers across the US

Historic Egyptian archives discovered

Exhibit documents Japanese atrocities

Contest to find Australian Prime Minister's email address

DEA employee gets prison term for leaking to reporter

photos: The Unseen Gulf War

Court upholds refusal to unseal records in case that led to riots

Under pressure, CBS revises script for Hitler miniseries

Discarded computer hard drives prove a trove of personal info

Dow v. Thing: A free-speech infringement that's worse than censorship

Supreme Court backs Congress' copyright extension

Canada: Judge warns journalists not to report on hearing

Judge refuses to close hearing in Malvo case

Closing of Brooklyn courtroom to public, defendant's wife upheld

The CIA's copy desk and the NY Times

Local officials' mass purchase of newspapers violates law

Chilling Effects Clearinghouse

Berkeley mayor pleads guilty for trashing student newspaper

U of California deletes 2 Emma Goldman quotes from fundraising letter
update: School officials reverse position, allow quotes

Child-killer's sealed documents released

Boos for Bush Sr. stripped from TV broadcast?

flashback: Boos for Hillary deleted from 9/11 concert rebroadcast

Iran: 2 newspapers closed after running political cartoon

Personal info posted for applicants to animal lab

Texas high court hears debate over taping jury deliberations

Information Awareness logo tee-shirt! [The MemHole is not affiliated with this effort and receives no compensation for this link]

primary doc: Illinois Governor's speech upon commuting death sentences

primary doc: Text of Zapatista speeches, January 1st, 2003

forgotten history: American "Peace" Homepage

Germany destroying Hitler's bunkers

Jackson Browne wants network to cut film

Terry Gilliam's Don Quixote movie might never get made

Judge allows release of video of Diana Ross arrest

Nearly 10,000 pages of Columbine documents released
More: Records release met with mistrust
More: Download scans of all documents

Judge seals all files of US-born man arrested and held without charges

White House dodges request for anthrax/cipro documents

Appeals court to hear arguments over secret church documents

FBI files look at Kent State shootings

Malcolm X's papers to be archived in harlem library

Video of cop shooting innocent family's dog (Real Media format)

Pharmacy benefit companies won't disclose fees

Copyright won't prevent release of Columbine tapes

Cincinnati cannot keep Justice police proposals secret

10 Most Wanted Gov't Documents

US Govt Secrecy and the Current Crackdown on
Leaks (Acrobat file)

Bush: Area 51 to stay secret

US pro-war PR site and Iraqi National Congress site one and the same

Publisher stops publication of gun-history book

Students file lawsuit over confiscated newspapers

Florida furniture store succeeds in shutting down consumer Website

Missing priest documents fuel additional concerns

HBO making documentary about Hitler's alleged homosexuality

Website pays price for Indian bribery expose

Energy Dept: Eighth Report on Inadvertent Releases of Restricted Data

Vatican issues crime stats for first time

How New York exams rewrite literature (A Sequel)

Invention secrecy

FBI files: Wallis Simpson's 'Nazi past' led to Edward's abdication

Director of Enron movie questions delay in airing

PR firm posts its Web password

Foreign Relations, 1961-1963: Berlin Crisis

El Paso officials report documents missing

Raids recover 500 original Beatles tapes

Bob Dylan's debt to the bootleg industry

Battle to keep Diana's love letters secret

US House set to create new homeland oversight panel

Documents prove Texaco altered figures

Former Bishop destroyed pedo-priest records

Documents: "Tobacco giant undermined" health experts

GOP and Democrats oppose release of campaign-finance documents

U.N. documents reveal fraud at Population Fund

Student charged with stealing and posting DirecTV documents

Horns and Halos: A War of Words

Judge agrees to release most documents in trial of man convicted of killing San Diego girl

Microsoft's masterplan to screw phone partner - full details

Spain: Judge demands oil-tanker documents from gov't

Documents prove Japan supplied "comfort women"

Text of US propaganda messages being beamed into Iraq

Gov't reports on mass-layoffs killed

Buy a flight manual, get a grand jury subpoena

Gov't openness at issue as Bush holds onto records

Federal court limits jurisdiction in Internet libel suits

Homeland Office is told to answer queries on its role

Blanket order preventing access to Enron court documents rejected

Researchers worry that fear of terrorism could muzzle science

Ignored report: At least 40% of nuns sexually abused

US Trade Representative must release agreement documents

Pulitzer-winner's cartoon spurs death threats from Muslims

Documents reveal high levels of rocket fuel in lettuce

First batch of Giuliani's papers released

Dep't of Energy wants cash for data

Under pressure, parade cancels parody of pedo-priests

Eyeballing sensitive locations

2 articles not included in the English-language edition of Ha'aretz (Israel) [one] [two]

Portland's top brass said it was OK to swipe your garbage--so we grabbed theirs

Feds can't find Moussaoui email

FBI files on Nazi war crimes

Revealed: the plan to move 300,000 Catholics out of Northern Ireland

Bangladesh war secrets revealed

Missouri high court: Jurors' names should be public

European copyrights expiring on recordings from 1950s

A Brahmin filmmaker's battle to tell India's story in India

Recently declassified photos of USS Pueblo

UK Public Records Office: New Year Releases 2003

US disaster plans include cloned icons

Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia

The Pentagon Papers (Gravel Edition), first 2 volumes

Judge prevents release of Diana Ross arrest video

Joint Senate and House Intelligence Committee report on 9/11 (unclassified portions)

Politicians named to 9/11 panel raise likelihood of Democrat and Republican cover-up

Secrecy fights loom large in DC

Vanishing Act: The US government's disappearing data

Bush Admin to make gov't information harder to find

Embarassing Enron video surfaces (watch portions of it here)

Defense Dept directive for propaganda operations against US allies

Privacy group sues Pentagon for documents on "Total Information" project

Senator seeks openness in federal vaccine autism proceedings

Whistleblower cannot be punished for revelations in news media

Photos: Police provocateurs at anti-EU demonstration in Denmark

US, protecting 'friendly' regime, kept secret info on 1978 Argentine murders

Feds sped approval of key Internet change despite warning about national security

Clinton-Gore White House email ordered searched by federal judge

Close-up photos of John "Total Information" Poindexter's house

Newspaper sued for posting 911 call on Website

UK: Editors risk jail for leaks of inspection info

Newspaper files civil complaint over Jayson Williams 911 tapes

Idaho Farm Bureau asks gov't to investigate "libelous" ad
See the ad (Acrobat file)

Kentucky Supreme Court won't hold newspaper in contempt

Florida newspapers appeal ruling on autopsy photos

Colorado high court gives ABC News access to trials

All the news that's fit to print, except unfavorable news about Israel

Hollywood studios trying to kill independent antiwar film

The forgotten origins of Kwanzaa

German court halts book on Catholics and Third Reich

"The Tilt: The US and the South Asian Crisis of 1971"

Digital records "obscure the past"

"Foreign Relations, 1969-1976, Vol. 4"

Document directly implicates Pope in pedophile cover-up
[read more here and here]

"The Monster" resigns as head of 9/11 commission
More: Kissinger's resignation letter
Earlier: Kissinger to withhold client list

Source: US firms named in Iraq dossier aided arms development

TV station agrees not to air terrorism story after Feds apply pressure

Jeb Bush restores rights of FBI agent jailed for destroying Ruby Ridge report

Public Citizen requests records on questionable business practices of Treasury Secretary nominee

Bush's Executive Order initiating "faith-based" tax-dollar giveaway

Woman files sexual assault/harrassment lawsuit against President (includes links to documents)

University rescinds prestigious prize for stealth anti-gun book

Apple sues man for product leak

Newsreel on the 1948 Dixiecrat convention that nominated Strom Thurmond for president
Also: 1948 Dixiecrat platform
Also: A sanitized past comes back to haunt Trent Lott and America

Email addresses of world leaders

Rare photos and other documents relating to organized crime in US

Courtney Love threatens to sue over posted document

Blix will censor Iraq arms declaration

US takes only copy of Iraq arms declaration

Australia's high court gives man go-ahead to sue US publication for libel
More: Media companies around the world alarmed

High court won't stop lawsuit against FBI stemming from magazine article

Census Bureau forced to release adjusted count

Release of ATF records to be decided by Supreme Court

Reporters Committee warns journalists about court access guidelines

New files show Cardinal Law acted on seven abuse cases

France: Jewish groups seek to ban book on Mideast conflict

New York Times runs "revised" versions of golf columns it spiked
More: Read the columns here and here

Newspaper editor, publisher get fines and probation for criminal libel

Sheriff's office must disclose officer names and salary information

Berkeley mayor apologizes for trashing campus newspapers

News organizations sue Kansas governor-elect over open meetings

Chief weapons inspector censors Iraq's arms declaration
More: In surprise move, US and four others to get uncensored copy of Iraq declaration

9/11 inquiry recommends intelligence changes

Court halts lawsuit seeking Energy Task Force documents

Bill of Rights Defense Committee

Boston priest files yield sordid sex tales
More: Records detail quiet shifting of rogue priests
More: Files show Law knew of more abuse cases
More: Records show a trail of secrecy, deception
More: Priest invoked Jesus for sexual acts with teen girls
More: Boston archdiocese priest fathered children, didn't respond immediately to overdose of girlfriend

UN Council delays distribution of Iraqi document

New documents about Bhopal disaster

New JFK assassination tapes released
More: Lost Kennedy tapes reveal White House response

What our government is hiding

Photographer arrested for taking pictures of Cheney's hotel

Publisher charged with
'sabotaging' new Israeli spy book

History is corrected at Colorado Capitol

White House document accuses Palestinians of violating commitments to stop violence

Media giant Bertelsmann admits Nazi past
Also: Final report of the Independent Historical Commission

Australian historian admits misquoting official

Houston Chronicle puts internal memo on Website

Visiting Bismarck, explorers revise its story

Canada: Judge tells teen to rewrite essay about ecstasy

Sony's $10 million campaign blurs advertising and editorial content

Saving your bits for posterity

Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age

The secret writings of Mother Teresa: God "does not really exist"

Ad attacking Bush's intelligence banned in Britain
Watch the ad online

John "Total Information" Poindexter's phone #, house, etc. (Watch him while he watches you)

Nuclear plant fiascoes likely with age, secret study suggests

The DiIulio letter

Harvard: "The Secret Court of 1920"
Also: In Harvard papers, a dark corner of the college's past

UK: Key secret agent's cover blown in court

Court battle over book about the 'Japanese Schindler'

British military "suppressed UFO information," says parliamentary watchdog

Digital Domesday book unlocked

FBI's secret files on novelist Graham Greene

Lost papers reveal Dylan Thomas's last days

UK Security Service records release 25-26 November 2002

France: Killer's memoirs spark anguish

foialaw.net: resources on freedom of information law

Bush appoints war criminal, proven liar, and wanted man to head 9/11 "probe"

US gov't asks court to seal vaccine records

Saudi lobbyists withhold subpoenaed documents in abduction cases involving American citizens

Boston archdiocese must release sex-scandal documents

US to disclose which surveillance documents it will release

Judge rejects appeal on Cheney papers

Colorado Springs police conducted surveillance for Denver “spy files”

Pacifica Radio Network in race against time to salvage its disintegrating library of historic tapes

Unpublished papers and memos by Daniel Ellsberg

New Nixon tape transcripts

America Online must reveal subscriber's identity

Britain to publish files on UFO sightings
Also: The Rendlesham file

New Hampshire high court orders audit interviews, notes made public

UK: Drug trial details set to be revealed to public

Mormon may face expulsion over article

Aides find book from first Congress

Homeland Security Act criminalizes leaks of business information
Also: Reporters Committee warns of severe restrictions in homeland security bill

NY Times: Critics say gov't deleted Website material to push abstinence
Of course: You read it on The Memory Hole a month ago

The 9/11 movie Hollywood won't let you see

Classified British telegrams posted on Cryptome

Gov't to release surveillance documents to ACLU

Judge condemns church for failing to publicly disclose documents

Metropolitan Opera forces shutdown of fan Website

Judge ordered to consider sealing records in priest sex abuse case

Comments regarding public access to critical energy infrastructure information

South Dakota Supreme Court takes oral arguments to Internet

The censor and the artist: A murky border

Council sues publisher over open meetings complaint

Microsoft spills customer data

Hospital must release employee names and salary information

Newspaper’s second attempt to dismiss parody libel suit refused

Scientist plans database of every human idea

Homeland Security bill's secrecy provisions stick

Memo: U.S. ponders resumption of nuke-weapons test

Justice Dept says revealing names would aid al Qaeda

New York firefighters slam 9/11 book
Also: Author defends FDNY looting allegations in Ground Zero book

More on CIA's attempt to censor book on Hanssen

Koppel says yes to military censorship in Iraq

Too many secrets

Alleged al Qaeda recruitment videos online

Federal report on classification activity FY 2001

The movie Miramax has been afraid to release

Script of Jerry Lewis' legendary unreleased Holocaust film, The Day the Clown Cried

Cut sequence from Ken Russell's The Devils discovered

Exhibition reveals cover-up over Lord Byron's sexuality

Washington Post admits article cleared by Pentagon

In JFK file, hidden illness, pain and pills

Bechtel vs. Bolivia: Time to open up secret trade courts

Legal document against Eli Lilly regarding mercury in vaccines

Hemingway's basement unsealed

Internet samizdat releases suppressed voices, history

Retrieving lost objects from the deep

Deal reached on 9/11 commission

Homeland Security Act loses provision for independent 9/11 probe

ACLU asks court to order government to immediately account for its use of vast new surveillance powers

FBI attacks ATF in draft report

Database of pedo-priests and those accused

US spy satellite images from the Cold War released

Author of Chinese nuclear arms book fights US censors

More free gov't Websites targeted for shutdown

Taslima Nasrin speaks (still)

US Bombing Watch

Freedom of information in trouble in Australia

The scholar who enraged Calvin and inspired the Unitarians was gruesomely executed for writing a book

Complete Apollo moonwalks, television transmissions, and rare film documentation on DVD

Total Information Awareness: Massive gov't database of personal info--no warrant needed! [More] [Statement from John Poindexter]

Federal judges adopt rule banning secret settlements

9/11 tape raised added questions on radio failures

Cornell ordered to release biotech documents

Europeans outlaw Net hate speech

Castro's home videos leaked, to be aired in US

Newspapers' bid to investigate DNA in 1981 killing quashed by court

Report on Pentagon 9/11 attack will probably never be released

Report urges focus on non-lethal weapons
[Related Memory Hole page]

District attorney releases Columbine gunman's juvenile records [Excerpts]
Also: Release of Klebold file in limbo

CIA attempts to censor book on Robert Hanssen
Also: CIA responds to charge

Government lawyers urge Supreme Court to keep traffic data secret

Chokehold on knowledge

Navy sites spring security leaks

Putin stifles Russian media reporting on theater siege

Google’s compromising position

Chicago police videotape protesters
[Related Memory Hole page]

Colorado city drops effort to block newspaper story

Floridians back open meetings, public records

Legal wrangling continues over Maryland escort service's 'black book'

Cops accused of assaulting pair who tried to document abuse

Giuliani photo vanishes from site for Saudi-funded parley

U.S. drafts secrecy guidelines for data

Malvo hearing closed to public, press

Shayler found guilty of revealing secrets

Shayler jailed for six months

Excerpts from Osama bin Laden's alleged will

Keeping languages alive

The 10,000 Year Library Conference

The 1956 Hungarian Revolution: A History in Documents

More Columbine papers to be opened

Maker of voting machines demands retraction of article

South Carolina GOP wants state probe of document-shredding charge

Art exhibition: Unseen Vogue

Reuters sued for publicizing material it found on public Website

Memo shows Harken board was told of risks before Bush stock sale

Group skewers publishers for censoring textbooks

Supressed writings of Birdman of Alcatraz up for bid

President to author: Your book is unpatriotic

Recent releases at the UK Public Record Office

DC-sniper's uncensored letter to police

NPR, New York Times lowball anti-war activists

Breaking Shayler trial blackout

Allegations against California Governor unsealed

Using the Web to create a collective memory of all living (and dead) species

Infrared reveals Old Masters' hidden intentions

Creepy agency logo casts evil eye on Planet Earth

Judge orders release of Energy Task Force papers for second time

Ashcroft: No need for new law to punish leakers

ACLU, other groups seek information about government surveillance

Conservationists sue for records used in new forest regulations

Military reporters join forces to fight access restrictions

Documentary on rich kids can be distributed

Daniel Ellsberg: Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers

Sen. Graham seeks to declassify key 9/11 data

Why U.N. inspectors left Iraq--then and now

Court says FEC can release Ashcroft documents if Ashcroft approves

200 pieces of MLK assassination evidence recently unsealed

World Press Freedom Index

Books you can't read online in the US

Google excludes sites from French, German listings

Michelin opts to settle case rather than disclose safety evidence to the public

Soon-to-be released records reveal felon's claims about California governor

CyberCemetery: Websites of defunct government agencies and commissions

French author cleared of "inciting racial hatred" for dissing Islam

Egyptian sentenced to year in jail for posting father's poem to Web

9/11 relatives push for commission

Cheney blocks creation of independent 9/11 commission

White House keeps a grip on its news

Easy access to public records online raises privacy questions

When email becomes more than conversation

Summary of Annual FOIA Reports for Fiscal Year 2001

British press gagged on reporting MI6's £100,000 bin Laden payoff

Researchers find records linking IBM to Auschwitz

FBI memo reveals pre-9/11 illegalities and blunders

The article Salon won't run about a film PBS won't broadcast or distribute

Congress seeks FBI data on informer; FBI resists

US withholds info as Canadian faces beheading

Undisclosed report: EPA knew its own plan was toxic

The Enron story that Salon pulled off its site

Columbine: Harris, Klebold records sought

Important documents in Catholic pedophile scandal(s)

Despite promises, few records released from Giuliani archives

Sanitizing 9/11

Wireless, classified data don't mix

Delaware newspaper wins access to repeat-offender records

Leaked reports reveal Arafat expulsion plans

Detailed analysis of World Trade Center's collapse may be sealed

Congressman, families demand WTC collapse data

Confidential tobacco attorneys' report

CIA rejects Congress' request for report on preparations for war in Iraq

Wall Street shaken by smoking gun emails

Senate candidate actively supports society's right-to-know

Judge releases details of Noelle Bush drug hearing

Debate transcript omits indication of Jeb Bush cheating

UK press challenges MI5 trial secrecy

Secrecy and openness in the European Union

Judge removes sealing order on all Moussaoui pleadings

Judge orders release of Torricelli memo

G.A.O. seeks to end secrecy surrounding Cheney's Energy Task Force

George W. Bush's military records

University bans controversial links

South Carolina takes lead in opening lawsuit settlements to public view

Bush judicial choice imperiled by refusal to release papers

Britain's Chief Rabbi agrees to remove "heretical" portions of latest book

Terrorism has become a pretext for a new culture of secrecy

McCartney to release lost Beatles song

First 911 tapes from 9/11 released

Internet Archive removes Website critical of Scientology

Government opposes request to release motions in Moussaoui case

Torricelli files motion to block immediate release of memo

Legal group to Amazon.com: Remove book or face "protracted litigation"

Newspaper editors worry about access to public records

Librarians report fewer challenges to books

Leaked dossier: Australia spy agency undermined by sex scandals, nepotism, corruption

The Los Angeles Times' secret list on Doris Kearns Goodwin

Court lifts order blocking news reports on allegation against cop

Arizona censors communications by Death Row inmates

Digitally archiving 9/11

Thousands of historical Tibetan books being digitized

Washington Post erases dis of Bill Bennet from essay

Previously unseen letters from John Lennon come to light in courtroom

Media challenges judge's order sealing Moussaoui pleadings

Cambridge University Website takedown

Press restrictions tighten at Guantanamo Bay

Are you ready for government-sponsored novels?

The forgotten first eight Presidents of the US

Historic artifacts were victims of 9/11 attacks

Hieroglyphics disclose unknown war

Wal-Mart has destroyed, altered, or concealed evidence in at least 75 court cases

Feds consider fate of "sensitive but unclassified" information

China masks a mass poisoning

Secret imaging satellites keep eye on Iraq

Frank Olson Legacy Project

Translated testimony of '17 November' suspect

Effort to ban "exploitive child modeling" raises thorny legal issues

Three-minute discrepancy in Flight 93 tape

With White House approval, E.P.A. pollution report omits global warming section

Feds to indict Webmaster of Raise the Fist

Website offers searchable city and town council minutes from across the US

Getting information from state Websites at a price

Analysis of transparency issues regarding international financial and trade institutions

Senator to introduce amendment to establish independent 9/11 commission

Secretive court to give Senate wiretap ruling

The Bloody Sunday report that the London Sunday Times refused to run

Court documents unsealed in cancer-drug dilution trial

News media ask appeals panel to release Torricelli memo

Internal Arthur Andersen memos

Post-9/11, 'sanitized' sites aim to shield data

Florida newspaper posts murder confession transcript, audio

Television journalist questioned for activities near military installation

Jerry Falwell again attempts to shut down parody Website

The Hitler movie that almost didn't get made

Report: "Homefront Confidential: How the War on Terrorism Affects Access to Information and the Public's Right to Know"

Survey finds Americans back government removal of online info

CIA must disclose some operational files on MKULTRA behavior-mod experiments

New 'State of the First Amendment' survey suggests many Americans see freedoms as obstacles in war on terror

Bush administration again refuses to release energy records

Bush administration: Clinton pardons documents should not be released

Moussaoui's court pleadings will no longer be made public

Diocese wants Kentucky newspaper held in contempt for publishing parts of lawsuit

Old spy satellite photos going public

First English extracts from kamikaze manual

The legendary, suppressed "Dark Alliance" Website is back online

Documents: "Was Robert Oppenheimer a Communist?"

The FBI's files on MAD Magazine

Archives of banned local newspaper from Saint Augustine, Florida

Reuters tries to "Disappear" its own dispatch on firefighters' boycott of Bush's 9/11 ceremony

The Information Squeeze

Compilations of FOIA Decisions Now Reach Back Five Years

Blocked by CIA for 2 years, document collection finally available

Newspaper sues for Florida child-welfare agency's records on missing kids

Detailed nutrient content of 6220 different foods

Defense Dept Puts More Info about Project SHAD (Human Guinea Pigs) Online

Secrecy Increasing for All Biological Research

The PowerPoint Presentation on Saudi Arabia That Rocked the Pentagon

American Bar Ass'n Opposes Secret Custody in 9/11 Probe

USA Today Pretends Its Previous Reporting on Iraq Doesn't Exist

Pres. Bush Expunges 4 Years at Caterair Intl from His Résumé

Compromise Reached Over New Jersey's Public Records Law

Congress Members Hit White House Over Secrecy

Republican Political-Advice Book Leaked

Key Federal Document Delivery System Endangered

French Far-right Website Shut Down

Meat-Recall Information Kept Hidden

Convicted for Speech

Supposedly Destroyed Atomic Plans Are Returned to Japan

Bush Administration Throws Embarassing Moments Down the Memory Hole

Delete, Baby, Delete

FBI Blocks Whistleblowing Agent's Book

FBI Asks Some Lawmakers to Submit to Lie Detector Test in Leak Investigation

White House Warned on Energy Papers

Reading? Somebody May Be Watching

Stopping The Privatization Of Public Knowledge

Belgian Company Drops Legal Action Over Leaked Documents

War and Forgetfulness -- A Bloody Media Game

Senate Ethics Committee Won't Release Torricelli Files

FBI's Sept. 11 Leak Probe Irks Senators

Still more Harken documents

Saudi Arabia Blocks 2,000 Websites

UN Keeps Damning Report on Afghan Massacre Secret [more]

Government Printing Office in Danger of Being Scrapped

Copyright as Cudgel

Eight Newspapers Are Finalists in APME Freedom of Information Awards Competition

List of Columbine Records Released

Records of Forced Sterilizations Shredded

Documents Nail IRS on Political Audits

The Secret History of Judges

Church Committee Report, Books 2 and 3, now online

UK: Ministry of Defence Sues Ex-Special Forces Soldier Over Exposé

New Website: Internal Memos: "Internet's largest collection of corporate memos and internal communication"

Entire run of New York Times available in digital format

Mob Informant Scandal Involved Highest Levels of FBI, Documents Show

More: Excerpts From FBI and Justice Department Memos About Gangster-Informants

NYC Administration Refuses to Release Records of 9/11 Response

Alleged al Qaeda Website back online (for now)

Further Harken documents

Government Tries to Restrict Media Coverage of Public Officials

Denver Mayor Won't Allow Destruction of Secret Police Files

Scientists Worry Journals May Aid Terrorists

The Nation Defuses a French Bombshell Book

Remembering Books the Nazis Burned

Tape Reveals Cops Making Monkey Chants as Black Man Dies on the Station Floor

Secret Film Exposes South African Jails

History Archive Wins Access to "Secret" Apartheid-Era Documents

UK: Key Evidence on Deaths of Soldiers Destroyed

Minnesota Abortion Foe Must Shutter Websites

Court Orders Groton Prep School to Give Grand Jury Files in Sex Abuse Cases

Recent Releases at the Public Record Office (UK)

Archive of alleged al Qaeda Website

Rumsfeld Orders Probe of Iraq Leak

Government Agencies Withheld Relevant Research From Congress During Farm Bill Debate

Sheriff's Office Won't Return Journalists' Film Confiscated at Murder Scene

Secret Germ Warfare Document Sent to Pakistan

Countries That Block Internet Access

Belgian Company Takes Further Legal Action Against Guardian Over Leaked Documents

Putting Corporate Security Before National Security

Halliburton's Kellogg Brown & Root defense contracts

Air-Traveler ID Requirement Challenged

Congress Awaits FBI Questions on Leaks

Harken Energy Corporation internal documents

Bush Refuses To Release UNFPA Report

State Dept Detained Reporter Who Wrote Embarassing Article

Secret Jehovah's Witness Database Protects Pedophiles

FBI Investigating Theft of Top Secret Military Files

Kohl Struggles to Keep Stasi Files Buried

Web Rebels Profit from Net Controls

Who's That Donor?

Vermont Photojournalist Threatened with Treason Charge

London News Editors Reject Demand to Surrender Leaked Papers

New Jersey Governor Limits Access to Public Records

White House Asks Congress to Shield Administration Officials From Penalties for Document Destruction

More Harken documents

Attorneys Accuse State of Shredding Documents in Lead Paint Lawsuit

Footage of Skull & Bones secret rituals

Freedom of Information Under Attack

New site: freedominfo.org

 

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