The US intelligence community is deeply allergic to the Freedom of Information Act. It is fair to say that the intelligence community does nearly everything in its power to avoid compliance with the Freedom of Information Act. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Mandela today is almost universally held as a heroic freedom fighter, and of course rightly so. — Ryan Shapiro Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
