Assignment 7B

The Freedom of Information Act is an act that serves as an advocate for the archive. It contains declassified documents, presidential paper collections, congressional records, and court testimony. It partners with the archive to “Track United States government agencies and federal records repositories for documents that either have been released before, or that help to shed light on the decision making process of the united states government and provide the historical context underlying those decisions. This benefits citizens because it keeps citizens up-to-date on what’s going on in the world. It informing about things they wouldn’t here in the newspapers or on the TV news. It was stated that “The archive’s mission of guaranteeing the public’s right to know extends to other countries outside the United States.”