Russ Kick, ‘Rogue Transparency Activist,’ Is Dead at 52
Working on his own, he used the Freedom of Information Act to publish suppressed documents, sometimes making front-page news.
By Katherine Q. Seelye, NY Times, Oct. 14, 2021
On the eve of the American-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the Pentagon banned media coverage of the return of the remains of dead soldiers to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
By November, as the death toll rose, Russ Kick, a self-taught expert at digging up information, filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act for all the images of coffins arriving at Dover since the war began.
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