EFF's searchable archive of secret government docs

Richard from the Electronic Frontier Foundation sez,

March 15-22 is Sunshine Week, an annual, non-partisan initiative to promote government transparency and the public's "right to know." EFF is celebrating by posting a heap of uncovered government documents online and launching a new search tool that lets the public search through them all by keyword. The documents cover cutting-edge digital civil liberties issues, like the Department of Homeland Security's data-mining projects, and FBI's surveillance technology, for example.

Information about these shadowy programs and policies would remain secret if EFF wasn't filing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and lawsuits to pry the documents out of the government's hands and into the sunlight, and we need people's support to keep it going! Please donate to EFF during Sunshine Week and help shine a light on government secrets!

Help Make Open Government a Reality (Thanks, Richard!)

[#1 posted by moniker42 , March 16, 2009 5:36 PM]

Excellent.

[#2 posted by ZekeSulastin , March 16, 2009 9:52 PM]

... going to go out on a limb and suggest that FOIA-acquired documents aren't, in fact, secret at all - just protected by laziness on the citizens' part?

I'd be quite worried if the EFF started posting Secret-with-a-capital-S on their site - both for whatever idiot within the government let them get out and for the EFF drawing the in-this-case-deserved ire of the government.

[#3 posted by pKp , March 17, 2009 3:53 AM]

Go EFF !

[#4 posted by AirPillo , March 19, 2009 3:35 AM]

And what of those for-some-reason-top-fecking-secret copyright discussions?