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Tag: New York Times

NYT Opinion: No, Your FOIA Request Cannot Wait ‘Until This Emergency Is Over’

Posted on May 12, 2020

In the more than half-century since President Lyndon Johnson signed the nation’s first Freedom of Information Act into law, the measure has proved to be a valuable tool for taxpayers and the press to keep a check on dealings by public officials that would otherwise be shrouded in secrecy. FOIA requests have yielded insights into…

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Tagged coronavirus, covid-19, FOIA, New York Times

ABA: Did publication of Donald Trump’s tax return information violate the law?

Posted on October 4, 2016

Did the New York Times violate federal law when it published a story about Donald Trump’s 1995 income tax return?

Stories in the Washington Post, Slate and LawNewz.com raise the issue, but all of them report that the First Amendment would likely protect the newspaper.

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Tagged New York Times, presidential campaign coverage, tax returns

New York Times Gets Stellarwind IG Report Under FOIA

Posted on April 28, 2015

The secrecy surrounding the National Security Agency’s post-9/11 warrantless surveillance and bulk data collection program hampered its effectiveness, and many members of the intelligence community later struggled to identify any specific terrorist attacks it thwarted, a newly declassified document shows.

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Tagged FOIA lawsuit, National Security Agency, New York Times

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