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The Obama Administration’s Addresses on National Security Law

A new book by Kenneth Anderson and Benjamin Wittes analyzes the Obama administration’s positions on national security law and how they have been disclosed through public speeches and address by administration officials. Speaking the Law: The Obama Administration’s Addresses on National Security Law, by Kenneth Anderson and Benjamin Wittes Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2015. Publisher’s […]

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Government Shutdown Contingency Plans 2015

The Office of Management and Budget has links to how agencies are preparing for the possibility of a government shutdown: Agency Contingency Plans. See also: Government Shutdown? Some Federal IT Systems Would be Unplugged, Websites Go Offline, By Jack Moore, NextGov (September 24, 2015). And don’t forget, FDLP libraries could collect instead of pointing. It […]

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GPO & Federal Judiciary Provide Access To More Than One Million Federal Court Opinions

This is an important milestone! (It is important to note that this project has Court Opinions, and does not include everything in the notorious PACER system. See FDsys Court Opinions Project and PACER.) GPO Press Release: GPO & FEDERAL JUDICIARY HONORED FOR PROVIDING ACCESS TO MORE THAN ONE MILLION FEDERAL COURT OPINIONS [PDF] Excerpt: FOR […]

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President’s Daily Briefs from Kennedy and Johnson Finally Released. FOIA FTW!

Wow! It took 8 years, but a collection of 2,500 declassified President’s Daily Briefs (PDBs) from the Kennedy and Johnson administrations are now available. Now we’ll see how easy (or difficult) it is to collect them all for the Stanford FOIA Web archive. I also hope the UCSB Presidency Project makes them available from their […]

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Politwoops archive of politicians’ deleted tweets uploaded to Internet Archive

In August, 2015, Twitter shut down the Politwoops service and its sister site Diplotwoops that tracked politicians’ deleted tweets. Twitter revoked access to its API for all Politwoops sites in 30 countries around the world, citing terms of service violations. In a move to preserve all of those deleted tweets, Open State has uploaded its […]

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