The history of FOIA

George Washington University's National Security Archives revisited the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in an article available at http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB NSAEBB194/index.htm (Blanton, 4 July 2006). The article included a look at the political culture surrounding President Johnson's signing of the FOIA over forty years ago.

The FOIA provided journalists and others with a process by which they could request access to previously guarded government information. For more information about the act, see the U. S. Department of Justice's FOIA website at http://www.usdoj.gov/04foia/.