POSTED AT 11:44 PM October 13, 2009

Repository of Freedom of Information Act docs

Hugh from the EFF sez, "Government Attic is a searchable repository of govenment docs released through Freedom of Information Act requests. Neat!"

governmentattic.org provides electronic copies of hundreds of interesting Federal Government documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Fascinating historical documents, reports on items in the news, oddities and fun stuff and government bloopers, they're all here. Think of browsing this site as rummaging through the Government's Attic -- hence our name. Our motto: Videre licet.

Rummaging in the Government's attic (Thanks, Hugh!)

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IamInnocent | #1 | 00:53 on Wed, Oct.14 | Reply

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I wonder what's in the basement?

Carrie | #2 | 11:22 on Wed, Oct.14 | Reply

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The basement is where the bodies are buried. ;)

radlib | #3 | 17:32 on Wed, Oct.14 | Reply

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while the governementattic is nice, you might be interested in the 44 FOIA sites I've been harvesting for about 2 years with the internet archive's archive-it service. Check out all the collections I've been building for Stanford library and all of the collections on the archive-it service. FOIA is definitely an important piece of the govt information pie. glad it's getting a shout-out here on BB.

Anonymous | #4 | 09:57 on Thu, Oct.15 | Reply

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One of the best FOIA resources out there is still WikiFOIA (http://sunshinereview.org/index.php/Portal:WikiFOIA) on Sunshine Review (http://sunshinereview.org/index.php/Main_Page).

IamInnocent | #5 | 22:29 on Thu, Oct.15 | Reply

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