‘The Classified Catalog’ launches to track secrecy news
peter.suber's bookmarks 2025-04-30
Summary:
"In the first 100 days alone, the [Trump] administration has:
- Deleted thousands of datasets from agency websites
- Closed agencies’ Freedom of Information Act offices
- Used disappearing messaging apps and failed to preserve government records
- Ordered federal health agencies to stop communicating with the public
- Gutted a key surveillance oversight board
- Mass-fired inspectors general
- Replaced independent, professional leadership at the National Archives with unqualified appointees
- Attempted to illegally destroy agency records...
FPF’s Classified Catalog will help journalists, researchers, Freedom of Information Act requesters, litigators, and members of Congress alike keep track of Trump’s assault on our right to know. And, most importantly, it will help us fight back...."