Friday, July 16, 2021

Office of Legal Counsel Indicies Published

Via Just Security, we learned that the Knight Institute has "publish[ed] fourteen indexes cataloging the titles of more than a thousand unclassified opinions authored by the [Office of Legal Counsel of the US department of Justice] between 1945 and 1958."  OLC compiled the indicies in response to the Knight Institute's ongoing Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.  They "outline the OLC’s unique role in shaping executive branch policy during the postwar period. Their release provides the most comprehensive view to date of the workings of an office that has largely operated in the dark."  More.

--Dan Ernst