Democracy cannot meaningfully function without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information about the operations of government. — Ryan Shapiro Copy Share Image
I am calling on all citizens with access to unreleased records pertaining to illegal, unconstitutional, or immoral government activities to return those records to… — Ryan Shapiro Copy Share
Democracy cannot meaningfully function without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information about the operations of… — Ryan Shapiro Copy Share
The notion that the records of government are the property of the people is radically democratic, but it is broken in practice. — Ryan Shapiro Copy Share
As Harvard historian of science Peter Galison has demonstrated, the universe of classified knowledge now far exceeds the universe of unclassified knowledge. That's a… — Ryan Shapiro Copy Share
Mandela today is almost universally held as a heroic freedom fighter, and of course rightly so. — Ryan Shapiro Copy Share
The US intelligence community is deeply allergic to the Freedom of Information Act. It is fair to say that the intelligence community does nearly… — Ryan Shapiro Copy Share
I'm not interested in embarrassing the United States. We as a nation need to foster a broader understanding of national security, and when in… — Ryan Shapiro Copy Share
