PBS: "Take a look at the Iran-U.S. Relations Project of the National Security Archive, which focuses on declassified documents..." www.pbs.org/newshour/classroom/classroom-voices/educator-voices/2026/04/backgrounder-history-of-iran-late-19th-century-to-present

ICYMI: The @nsarchive.bsky.social published the new Disappearing Data Chronology to track major data losses (and wins!) of the last year. As @lyndamk.bsky.social put it in an email, we’re going to need resources like these “in putting the pieces back together.” nsarchive.gwu.edu/special-exhi...

Rachel Santarsiero on the chronology of disappearing data under the Trump administration that she has compiled for the National Security Archive www.youtube.com/shorts/su2Lj...

"The documents describe an extraordinary secret mission: In the autumn of 1994, the team of 31 Americans slipped quietly into a remote area of Kazakhstan to secure the 1,320 pounds of weapons-grade uranium and airlift it safely out of the country to the [US]." nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...

The National Security Archive is a nonprofit housed at GWU, not a govt agency. They FOIA for the public good, capturing an enormous amount of U.S. history. Their Chronology itemizes >100 disappearances, from shutting the Spanish WH website to purging Holocaust remembrances from DOD website. 😢

every once in a while I find something so immediately relevant to my dissertation (around the politics of government data and data quality) that I metaphorically sprint to bookmark it that discovery has been via bluesky a non-zero number of times

Now that the 10th annual #NYCOpenDataWeek is over (and what a fun, celebratory week it was), time to get back to defending the (often shrinking) open society at large. Projects like this are important, as is @datarescueproject.org.

A wonderful new resource on disappearing data under the second Trump administration:

Guys, the President was literally threatening to invade the territory of a NATO country earlier this year, to the point where they had to deploy troops to deter it. That has consequences.

Archive fellow Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi and Luca Trenta on"Khamenei's Killing and the Perilous Death of the Assassination Ban" www.justsecurity.org/135015/khame...

Tried to argue emails didn’t count-Clinton too-and @nsarchive.bsky.social stopped that (my sis being counsel)

The @nsarchive.bsky.social has published a new document collection, "CIA Covert Operations: The Truman Years, 1946-1953," now available from ProQuest as part of the Digital National Security Archive.

Today, the Archive published a Disappearing Data Chronology--a timeline tracking changes in access to federal information under Trump, including major data losses and restorations, legal challenges to information takedowns, and threats to archival collections. nsarchive.gwu.edu/special-exhi...

What a resource from @nsarchive.bsky.social! The Disappearing Data Chronology

Feb 3, 2025 - We started fighting to save our data. July 3, 2025 - We launched #SaveOurSigns with Minn librarians. April 2026 - We are still talking about the importance of public data as a public good. ❤️🛟

🔔 Introducing the Disappearing Data Chronology—a timeline tracking the Trump admin’s fundamental changes to the information landscape, including major data losses / restorations, legal challenges, and threats to archival collections. nsarchive.gwu.edu/special-exhi... @nsarchive.bsky.social

Today, the Archive published a Disappearing Data Chronology--a timeline tracking changes in access to federal information under Trump, including major data losses and restorations, legal challenges to information takedowns, and threats to archival collections. nsarchive.gwu.edu/special-exhi...

The Archive's 2026 Sunshine Week FOIA: Law Gives Agencies 20 Working Days to Respond; Agencies Give Requesters…3, 5, 7 Working Days? Or Close Via @nsarchive.bsky.social by Scoville Fellow '22 @rsanta.bsky.social and Wendy Valdes. nsarchive.gwu.edu/foia-audit/f...

In 1975, the former CIA chief of station in Congo was interviewed by members of the Senate "Church Committee" which was investigating various CIA abuses, including the assassination plot against Lumumba. (Source: JFK assassination records)

It Was One of the Cold War’s Greatest Crimes. No One Has Paid a Price. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/o...

Americas long standoff with Cuba: Archive senior analyst Peter Kornbluh spoke with CBC Radio www.cbc.ca/radio/frontb...

Big new: A judge has ruled that ICE can’t ignore FOIA because of a lapse in funding and must produce records in response to a @freedom.press FOIA lawsuit. That’s great news, in no small part because the records will shed light on obfuscation of congressional oversight of ICE detention facilities.

"It was an incredible effort, especially given the state in which the country was in the early 1990s," noted Svetlana Savranskaya, director of Russia programs for George Washington University‘s National Security Archive. gizmodo.com/sunken-sovie...

Tonight (March 24) at 8pm: Unpacking the Trump administration’s growing tensions with Cuba. An interview with Archive senior analyst Peter Kornbluh. www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...

This is a great example of why a strong Presidential Records Act is essential for accountability. Want to read the notes or the telcons (telephone conversations) between Trump and MBS re Iran? Then you need an enforceable PRA that doesn’t let Trump get away w/not keeping or destroying records.

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the military dictatorship in Argentina. The National Security Archive has published hundreds of declassified U.S. documents over the years on the coup, Operation Condor, and the U.S. role in supporting the regime. (Click below) nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

The chron tracks some of the biggest and most unprecedented data / archival losses from 2025. To be honest, after compiling each entry, it was staggering to see just how much we’ve lost and fought for this last year. www.shafr.org/passport-apr... @passportshafr.bsky.social @nsarchive.bsky.social

Wrote a chronology of 2025’s biggest data losses (and restorations!) for @shafrhistorians.bsky.social’s April Passport issue. Be sure to also check out the issue’s moving tribute to my former @nsarchive.bsky.social colleague Bill Burr. Bill, you are so missed.

It looks like Iran is applying lessons learned during the "rigged" Millennium Challenge war game. @foianate.bsky.social nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/2024-11...

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the military dictatorship in Argentina. The National Security Archive has published hundreds of declassified U.S. documents over the years on the coup, Operation Condor, and the U.S. role in supporting the regime. (Click below) nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

It's definitely not out of character for the US to pressure Colombian leaders this way. Key question is who leaked this and why.

Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigns over Iran war. x.com/joekent16jan...

Nice quote from the Archive's @rsanta.bsky.social in a new article from Inside Climate News insideclimatenews.org/news/1603202...

In 2017, a mandatory review request by the @nsarchive.bsky.social forced the CIA to release previously redacted portions of an internal history on the overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq in 1953. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Prying Government Secrets Loose: The National Security Archive, housed at GW, plays a vital role in democracy and history and gives students a unique experience gwtoday.gwu.edu/prying-gover...

CIA Intelligence Assessment: "The Strait of Hormuz: A Vulnerable Lifeline," Secret, July 1979.

Happy Sunshine Week! The Archive's 2026 FOIA Audit finds that federal agencies use “clarification of scope” letters to flip the burden of FOIA search and review onto requesters Click below to read more: nsarchive.gwu.edu/foia-audit/f...

You should also check out @foianate.bsky.social’s WaPo investigation into court dockets that found government lawyers “explicitly blamed the Trump staffing cuts for FOIA delays at at least 13 agencies.” wapo.st/4sSnlES

For #SunshineWeek, the National Security Archive’s Annual FOIA Audit found that federal agencies’ use of “clarification of scope” letters undermines the rights of FOIA requesters. Read our investigation here: nsarchive.gwu.edu/foia-audit/f... @nsarchive.bsky.social

In celebration of Sunshine Week, the Archive published its 2026 Freedom of Information Act Audit, an annual evaluation of the state of the nation’s freedom of information infrastructure nsarchive.gwu.edu/foia-audit/f...

Prying Government Secrets Loose: The National Security Archive, housed at GW, plays a vital role in democracy and history and gives students a unique experience gwtoday.gwu.edu/prying-gover...

Archive fellow @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social and @lucatrenta.bsky.social on the Khamenei assassination and the long history of the US killing through proxies.

In a handwritten note, Pres. Carter seems to dismiss Brzezinski's call for military action to incite the "downfall" of Khomeini: "We need to list everything that Khomeini would not want to see occur and which would not incite condemnation of U.S. by other nations." nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/197...

Very cool to see the @nsarchive.bsky.social’s work on disappearing climate data featured in @postopinions.bsky.social! I’d also point readers to the excellent work of @envirodgi.bsky.social and @publicenvirodata.bsky.social, the experts in environmental data preservation! wapo.st/4b5EUd8

In 2017, a mandatory review request by the @nsarchive.bsky.social forced the CIA to release previously redacted portions of an internal history on the overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq in 1953. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Documenting U.S. planning for the Iran strike will be harder than documenting the lead-up to the Iraq War thanks to this admin's animosity to record-keeping. Still, docs released through FOIA re Iraq provide offer a road map of what to ask for. The best examples are from @nsarchive.bsky.social.

Deny, delay, downplay: How governments hide climate change intelligence Via @thebulletin.org by Scoville Fellow '22 @rsanta.bsky.social of the @nsarchive.bsky.social. thebulletin.org/2026/02/deny...

The @nsarchive.bsky.social is one of the best resources on the web on the declassified history of U.S.-Iran relations, the 1953 coup, the 1979 hostage crisis, and more. nsarchive.gwu.edu/project/iran...

Ten years ago, the CIA released a controversial internal history of the Bay of Pigs operation. Read it here: nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

The Long Shadow of Dos Erres: Canadian Court Sanctions Perpetrator of 1982 Dos Erres Massacre in Guatemala -- @nsarchive.bsky.social publishes key records from the trial nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...