Blanton, Thomas S.

Thomas S. Blanton is Director of the National Security Archive at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. In April 2000, the Archive won U.S. journalism's George Polk Award for "piercing self-serving veils of government secrecy, guiding journalists in search for the truth, and informing us all." A graduate of Harvard University, he filed his first Freedom of Information Act request in 1976 as a weekly newspaper reporter in Minnesota. His articles have since appeared in "The International Herald-Tribune, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journa...