Editing Project on Government Oversight (section)

=== Lawsuit against John Ashcroft ===
In 2004, POGO filed a lawsuit against then-U.S. Attorney General [[John Ashcroft]] for illegally retroactively classifying documents critical of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]. The classification came to light after [[Sibel Edmonds]], an FBI translator, discovered that intercepted memos relevant to the [[September 11 attacks|September 11 terrorist attacks]] had been ignored due to poor translation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/07/05/translator_in_eye_of_storm_on_retroactive_classification/?page=full|title=Translator in eye of storm on retroactive classification|last=Kornblut|first=Anne E.|date=2007-07-05|website=The Boston Globe|language=en|access-date=2017-09-09}}</ref> POGO won the lawsuit in 2005.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.citizen.org/media/press-releases/justice-department-cavesin-allows-publication-retroactively-classified|title=Justice Department Caves In: Allows Publication of Retroactively Classified Information|date=2005-02-22|website=Public Citizen|language=en|access-date=2017-09-09}}</ref>