freedom of information act
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How America’s Secret Nuke Police Hunted For Dirty Bombs In The 1970s
Bomb threats have been a part of American life since at least the 19th century. But in the 1970s the types of threats shifted dramatically. The people making bomb threats in the US started to claim their bombs had nuclear materials. By 1975, the US started a new task force to deal with the threats,…
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The NSA Has Found A New Way To Categorically Deny FOIA Requests
The notoriously secretive National Security Agency is raising “security concerns” to justify an apparent new policy of pre-emptively denying Freedom of Information Act requests about the agency’s contractors.