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NSC runs largely on charitable donations, now more than ever. With every new step the government takes to implement its destructive agenda, we are seeing our workload balloon, mostly due to new whistleblowers, terminated federal employees, improper clearance revocations, acts of government censorship, and court battles over our clients’ right to access government information.

And for most of those cases, we will continue to charge our clients relative pennies on the dollar, which means that we still need assistance from people like you. So if you have any to spare, please consider a charitable donation using one of our buttons at the top of the page.

If you’re still on the fence (or you just like reading), here’s a taste of what your previous donations helped us do in the past few years:

A lawsuit brought against Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” alleging that it is operating as an unlawful advisory committee, must be transparent and accountable, and may not exercise any decisionmaking authority.
A lawsuit brought against the Office of Personnel Management to prohibit its use of an unsecure server to maintain privacy-protected information about anyone with a .gov or .mil email address until it has performed a legally sufficient privacy impact analysis.
A lawsuit brought against DOJ for records critical to the Special Counsel’s investigation of Donald Trump for violating the Espionage Act and inciting the January 6 Insurrection.
A lawsuit brought against the National Security Council for records exposing the corrupt machinations of the first Trump White House to censor former National Security Advisor John Bolton’s book.
Ongoing work with Congress and other whistleblower advocacy groups to promote robust protections for whistleblower education.
Two lawsuits brought against Congress for copies of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s “Torture Report” and the House and Senate Security Manuals for handling classified information. We lost the Torture Report case but won the Security Manuals case, and the Security Manuals can be found here and here.
A lawsuit brought against CIA to force them to post their declassified archives on the web. The records can be found here.
A lawsuit brought against FBI for their records on Henry Kissinger. The records released so far can be found here.
Two lawsuits brought against DOD and CIA seeking to compel the agencies to follow their own rules and give individuals denied a security clearance the evidence supporting the agencies’ allegations.
A lawsuit brought against DOD over censorship of various military history manuscripts, in which DOD is arguing that the court should decide whether or not its censorship decisions were proper without even hearing arguments or evidence from the author or his counsel.
Numerous amicus curiae briefs filed in various courts on matters of public significance, including one filed with the Supreme Court about the need for intelligence employees to be able to challenge adverse employment decisions in court and another filed with the Supreme Court about the inability of a certain former President to assert executive privilege over the objection of the actual President.

And that’s just the work we can tell you about. So as you can see, your money is being put to good use. We hope you’ll consider giving us more to work with.

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