#Government Transparency

Articles (30)

• 🇺🇸 How Hegseth has transformed the Pentagon’s wartime press operation — 11/04/2026 [USA]

  The spotlight of war inevitably shines on the Defense secretary’s personality and priorities. Donald Rumsfeld, Pentagon chief when President George W. Bush launched the Iraq War, stepped into the bri...

  Related: #Military Communication, #Strategic Messaging
• 🇺🇸 Groups sue Trump administration over claim that presidential records can be shielded from public — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Two groups are suing the Trump administration over the Justice Department's claim that a federal law requiring the handover of presidential records for public preservation is unconstitutional.

  Related: #Executive Power, #Legal Precedent
• 🇺🇸 Army survivor recalls moment Iran drone hit Kuwait unit and grisly scene that followed — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  U.S. service members spoke to CBS News' Jonah Kaplan about the deadly Iranian drone strike in Kuwait and recalled the moment an explosion hit the unit. The survivors described the heroism after the wa...

  Related: #Military Conflict, #Firsthand Testimony
• 🇺🇸 Judge orders Pentagon to restore press access — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  The Pentagon is obstructing reporters and defying an earlier court order that required it to restore access to credentialed journalists covering the Defense Department, a U.S. judge in Washington rule...

  Related: #Press Freedom, #Judicial Authority
• 🇺🇸 CDC delays COVID vaccine benefits report — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reportedly delayed the publication of its report detailing the benefits of the COVID-19 vaccine at the behest of its acting director. Acting CDC Di...

  Related: #Public Health, #Scientific Integrity
• 🇺🇸 Judge Rejects Hegseth’s Second Attempt to Restrict Reporters at Pentagon — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  A federal judge gutted a set of rules that were adopted after the court declared an earlier press policy unconstitutional, in a case brought by The New York Times.

  Related: #Press Freedom, #Legal Challenges
• 🇺🇸 Judge says Pentagon must restore press access — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  A federal judge blocked a restrictive new Defense Dept. press policy instituted after previously he ruled Pentagon press restrictions issued last year were unlawful.

  Related: #First Amendment, #Legal Challenge
• 🇺🇸 Judge Says Pete Hegseth Can’t Impose New Set Of Pentagon Press Restrictions: “The Curtailment Of First Amendment Rights Is Dangerous At Any Time” — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  A federal judge said Thursday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his team have flouted his order striking down a set of Pentagon press access guidelines by trying to impose a new series of restri...

  Related: #First Amendment, #Judicial Authority
• 🇺🇸 Federal judge finds Pentagon is violating court order to restore access to reporters — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  A federal judge on Thursday ruled that the Defense Department is violating his earlier order to restore access to the Pentagon for reporters.

  Related: #First Amendment, #Judicial Oversight
• 🇺🇸 US judge orders Pentagon to restore press access — 09/04/2026 [USA] Related: #Press Freedom, #Legal Precedent
• 🇺🇸 Supreme Court Secrecy Includes Reasons for Recusal — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Justices often don’t disclose why they disqualify themselves from hearing cases. Their silence echoes the court’s unexplained emergency orders.

  Related: #Judicial Ethics, #Supreme Court
• 🇺🇸 The shuttering of the CIA Factbook is just another assault on our intellect — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  'In my view, I see this administration, systematically and what seems intentionally, making us unhealthy, unwealthy, unwise and unsafe,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

  Related: #Access to Information, #Public Discourse
• 🇺🇸 US CDC delays publishing report showing COVID vaccine benefits, WaPo reports — 09/04/2026 [USA] Related: #Public Health, #Science Communication
• 🇺🇸 As DOJ prepares to share state voter data with DHS, a key privacy officer resigns — 03/04/2026 [USA]

  Since last year, the Justice Department has made unprecedented demands to states for sensitive voter data, including drivers license numbers and partial Social Security numbers.

  Related: #Data Privacy
• 🇬🇧 Is the truth out there? US registers aliens.gov as Trump pledges UFO files release — 22/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Web domain added to government registry a month after president directed agencies to release files relating to UAPs</p><p>It was a gift to conspiracy theorists.</p><p>Last week, the US Cybersecurit...

  Related: #UFOs, #Donald Trump
• 🇺🇸 News Outlets Pressure Pentagon to Restore Access After Court Ruling — 22/03/2026 [USA]

  A federal judge ruled on Friday that key parts of the Pentagon’s press policy were unconstitutional.

  Related: #Media Freedom
• 🇬🇧 US judge blocks Pentagon’s restrictions on press after New York Times lawsuit — 20/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Lawsuit alleged changes gave DoD free rein to punish reporters and outlets over coverage it did not like</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/feb/17/sign-up-for-the-breaking...

  Related: #Media Freedom, #Legal Ruling
• 🇺🇸 Judge strikes down restrictive Pentagon press policy, finding it violates First Amendment — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  A federal judge has struck down some of the Defense Department's strict controls on how journalists with access to the Pentagon are allowed to report — ending a policy that caused many news outlets to...

  Related: #First Amendment, #Press Freedom
• 🇺🇸 Judge sides with New York Times in challenge to Pentagon policy limiting reporters' access — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  A federal judge agreed Friday to block the Trump administration from enforcing a policy limiting news reporters' access to the Pentagon, agreeing with The New York Times that key portions of the new r...

  Related: #Press Freedom
• 🇺🇸 Judge blocks restrictive Pentagon press access policy — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  A federal judge blocked the Department of Defense press access policy in a lawsuit by the New York Times.

  Related: #Press Freedom, #Legal Ruling
• 🇺🇸 Judge sides with New York Times in challenge to policy limiting reporters' access to Pentagon — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  A federal judge agreed Friday to block the Trump administration from enforcing a policy limiting news reporters' access to the Pentagon, ruling that key portions of the new rules are unlawful.

  Related: #Press Freedom
• 🇺🇸 Government snags alien.gov and aliens.gov domains amid UFO disclosure push, but sites remain dark — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  The federal government registered two extraterrestrial-themed .gov domains this week, but neither site is live, a funding freeze is blocking new domain requests at the agency that registered them and ...

  Related: #UFO Disclosure
• 🇺🇸 After yet another death in ICE custody, we need more transparency — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  'The public has the right to know the truth and understand the circumstances surrounding these deaths through clear reporting and independent investigations,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

  Related: #Immigration Enforcement
• 🇺🇸 Former counterterrorism official says he wasn't allowed to share Iran war concerns with Trump — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  Joe Kent, the former counterterrorism director who resigned this week over concerns about the Iran war, said Wednesday that he and other senior officials with doubts about the airstrikes "were not all...

  Related: #National Security
• 🇺🇸 Justice Department leaders meet with lawmakers behind closed doors to quell Epstein files furor — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche went to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to try to quell bipartisan frustration over the Justice Department's handling of millions of files...

  Related: #Legal Accountability
• 🇺🇸 Mullin agrees to meet with committee behind closed doors after dustup over claims about overseas trips — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) on Wednesday agreed to meet with members of the Senate Homeland Security Committee behind closed doors after a dustup with leadership from both parties over him largely...

  Related: #Political Accountability
• 🇺🇸 DOJ blocked release of secret Epstein drug probe file, Sen. Wyden says — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  Sen. Ron Wyden says he believes the government had "ample evidence" that Epstein was involved in drug trafficking.

  Related: #Epstein Investigation
• 🇺🇸 Rand Paul threatens to cancel DHS secretary vote over dispute on transparency — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  Sen. Markwayne Mullin acknowledged to colleagues Wednesday that he took part in an ultra-secret operation a decade ago as a member of Congress that he can't speak about in public -- and the matter cou...

  Related: #Political Dispute
• 🇺🇸 White House offers body camera expansion, immigration enforcement limitations in DHS reopening bid — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  The White House this week unveiled a fresh counteroffer in a bid to reopen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which remains shut down as airport security lines grow and tensions escalate in th...

  Related: #Immigration Policy
• 🇺🇸 Utah erupts after uncovering ICE’s secret detention center deal — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  It’s no surprise the Trump administration tried its best to keep its latest Utah detention center plan a secret; six in 10 Americans say ICE has gone too far.

  Related: #Immigration Policy