Nate Jones
FOIA Director, National Security Archives, George Washington University
Nate Jones is the FOIA Coordinator for the non-profit, non-governmental National Security Archive. At the Archive, Jones oversees the thousands of FOIA and MDR requests and hundreds of FOIA and MDR appeals that the Archive submits each year. He acts as liaison between Archive analysts and government FOIA officers, and serves as the Archive’s FOIA counselor to the public. Jones is also the editor of the Archive's blog and manages its twitter account. He was coauthor of the Archive's 2010 FOIA Audit, Sunshine and Shadows: The Clear Obama Message for Freedom of Information Meets Mixes Results. He earned his MA in Cold War History from the George Washington University, where he wrote his thesis on -and submitted FOIA requests about- the 1983 "Able Archer" nuclear war scare.