<p>If you need something to celebrate today, the Freedom of Information Act was signed into law <a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a> in 1966.</p><p>"It took [U.S. House of Representatives member John E. Moss] 12 years to get the FOIA through Congress [...] The Moss Committee took it upon itself to reform confidentiality policy and implement punishments for the overuse of classification by officials and departments."</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_(United_States)" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_(United_States)"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_</span><span class="invisible">of_Information_Act_(United_States)</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/foia/" rel="tag">#foia</a> <a href="/tags/freedomofinformation/" rel="tag">#FreedomOfInformation</a> <a href="/tags/anniversary/" rel="tag">#anniversary</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a></p>