FOIA Files: The B-Sides
These are the documents that never get any love.
A painting by a Guantanamo Bay detainee. The US government redacted vast swaths of the painting citing privacy and law enforcement exemptions under the FOIA.
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For this week’s newsletter we’re going to mix it up a bit and focus on the b-sides, if you will. You know, like Super Black Market Clash by the Clash (the only band that matters!). These are the documents that never get any love. I'm talking about the questionable redactions, the odd, humorous emails and text messages, the ephemera buried in the stacks of records I've obtained over the years. Consider this my mixtape, a collection of greatest hits from Uncle Sam’s archives.