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Open Letter Urges Transparency in COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Trials

Students from the Media Freedom and Information Access (MFIA) Clinic, helped a nationwide group of medicine, public health, and health policy experts issue an open letter urging greater transparency into the design of clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccine candidates.
Open Letter Urges Transparency in COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Trials
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ROLC & MFIA File Complaint Seeking Disclosure of U.S. Troop Numbers in Conflict Zones

The Yale Law School Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic (ROLC) and the Media Freedom and Information Access (MFIA) Clinic joined forces to sue the Department of Defense seeking information related to the amount of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.
ROLC & MFIA File Complaint Seeking Disclosure of U.S. Troop Numbers in Conflict Zones
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MFIA Clinic Files FOIA Case on Behalf of Insider Inc.

The Media Freedom and Information Access (MFIA) Clinic at Yale Law School filed a lawsuit 0 on behalf of Insider Inc. and reporter Angela Wang.
MFIA Clinic Files FOIA Case on Behalf of Insider Inc.
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MFIA Clinic Receives Grant from Legal Clinics Fund

The Media Freedom and Information Access (MFIA) Clinic has received a $230,000 grant to help fund a new fellow to lead the Clinic’s initiative for local journalists.
MFIA Clinic Receives Grant from Legal Clinics Fund
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MFIA Clinic Files Appeal in Case on Public Right to Witness Executions

The Media Freedom and Information Access (MFIA) Clinic has appealed the dismissal of its Virginia lawsuit asserting a constitutional right to witness executions.
MFIA Clinic Files Appeal in Case on Public Right to Witness Executions
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Meet MFIA’s New Student Directors

Anna Kaul ’21, Jacob Schriner-Briggs ’21, and Sarah Lamsifer ’21 will lead the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic (MFIA) this year.
Meet MFIA’s New Student Directors
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Time

'Now People Can Read the Truth.' A Former FBI Agent's Memoir on the War on Terror Is Declassified After 9 Years

Time Magazine reports on the rerelease of a book with new unredacted information about CIA interrogation at Guantanamo Bay. The Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic at the Law School helped in the case to rerelease the book.

'Now People Can Read the Truth.' A Former FBI Agent's Memoir on the War on Terror Is Declassified After 9 Years
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New Haven Register

Yale Law School helps win suit against CIA, lifting censorship of book on terrorism

Floyd Abrams Clinical Lecturer in Law David Schulz ’78 and David Froomkin ’20 are quoted in a Hearst Newspapers article about a former FBI agent whose book was redacted after the CIA took issue with his eyewitness account of its interrogation of Guantanamo detainee Abu Zubaydah. The Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic assisted a filmmaker and a journalist in their efforts to gain access to the redacted information.

Yale Law School helps win suit against CIA, lifting censorship of book on terrorism
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Aided by MFIA, FBI Agent’s Book on Enhanced Interrogation Rereleased

The MFIA Clinic has helped rerelease a book with new information about the CIA’s interrogation of Guantanamo detainee Abu Zubaydah.
Aided by MFIA, FBI Agent’s Book on Enhanced Interrogation Rereleased
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The New York Times

C.I.A. Uncensors Memoir of F.B.I. Agent Who Protested Torture of Terrorists

The New York Times covers the story of a former FBI agent whose book was redacted after the CIA took issue with his eyewitness account of its interrogation of Guantanamo detainee Abu Zubaydah. The Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic assisted a filmmaker and a journalist in their efforts to gain access to the redacted information.

C.I.A. Uncensors Memoir of F.B.I. Agent Who Protested Torture of Terrorists