secrecy
Enter Restricted Government Areas in Virtual Reality
In his new exhibition, James Bridle attacks governments’ cultures of “We can neither confirm nor deny” secrecy.
My Dad's Long, Frustrating Battle with the US Government to Learn About His Own Kidnapping
My dad was a journalist when he was kidnapped by Islamic militants in Beirut in 1985, three months before I was born. But it's American laws that have made figuring out what happened a nightmare.
What Would You Do If You Could Censor Your Past? A Visit to the UK's Secret Archives
VICE News has learned that some UK Foreign Office 'sensitivity reviewers' are reading and redacting historic documents that they themselves wrote while working as diplomats.
'A Lose-Lose Situation': Prince Charles's Secret Letters Must be Made Public, UK Court Rules
After a 10-year legal battle, 27 mysterious letters, or the "black spider memos," that the heir to the British throne has written to UK politicians since 1969 must now be unsealed.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service Refused to Tell Us How Much It Spent on an Unconstitutional Snooping Campaign
Canada's top spy agency has given VICE a "we can neither confirm nor deny."
Newspapers Are Suing Oklahoma for Hiding a Botched Execution
"The idea that the government has the right to exercise its ultimate power in secret is one that we can all reject."
Why Is the CIA So Protective of the Details of One of Its Biggest Blunders?
The agency still refuses to release the last volume of its history of the Bay of Pigs invasion.
The TPP Might Ruin Internet Freedom, but We’ll Export More Canadian Meat to Japan
Canada's active interest in the Trans-Pacific Partnership will likely lead to draconian intellectual property laws that will handcuff Canada's digital innovation. Some experts believe that the TPP will only improve our GDP by 0.36, so is this...
Oklahoma Will Execute Two Tonight Despite 'Unanswered Questions' About Its Drugs
Political pressure, not legal considerations, lifted a stay of execution.
The Harper Government Insists it’s Legal to Collect Metadata
CSEC's defense of its metadata collection program is steeped in confusing, government doublespeak.
The Lost Spy: Dissecting the CIA's Biggest Scandal Since 9/11
Why journalists waited over six years to reveal a CIA contractor was being held hostage in Iran—and was that long enough?
The Art of Looking at Government Secrets
From clandestine military bases to spy satellites, Trevor Paglen photographs invisible America.