2014 Event Court documents have been unsealed for rulings in 2008 requiring companies to give customers' online data to the U.S. government with no warrant; the papers show that Yahoo! sued but lost, resulting in compliance by Yahoo!, Google, Apple, and others 2014 Event 'The Washington Post' and 'The Guardian' win the Pulitzer Prize for reporting of surveillance programs by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA); the investigations relied on thousands of documents leaked by Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor 2014 Event Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who has been granted temporary asylum in Russia, claims that his decision to leak classified NSA documents about mining emails and telephone call logs, has resulted in several significant threats to his life 2013 Event Ahead of its IPO , Twitter Inc. publicly files disclosure documents posting strong revenue growth 2013 Event Declassified CIA documents reveal that during the Iran-Iraq War, top Reagan administration officials gave Iraq information on the location of Iranian troops 2013 Event The release of 1.7 million U.S diplomatic and intelligence documents from 1973-1976 when Henry Kissinger was U.S. Secretary of State were released by Wikileaks; Julian Assange worked on the project inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London 2013 Event The President of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, declares that official documents must use the words 'State of Palestine' 2012 Event Sisters Eva Hoffe and Ruth Wiesler, who inherited valuable documents belonging to Franz Kafka and his colleague Max Brod are ordered to turn the documents over to the National Library in Tel Aviv 2012 Event Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine's President, signs a controversial law concerning the status of 18 languages as regional and minority languages; the law allows officials in Russian-speaking regions of the country to use Russian in documents and at public events 2012 Event Hearings are delayed for the U.S. extradition of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom over concerns about the search and seizure of documents 2012 Event The Vatican confirms that Pope Benedict XVI's butler was arrested for allegedly leading confidential documents 2012 Event An internal investigation is launched by Pope Benedict XVI involving leaks of confidential documents that allege corruption, financial mismanagement and power struggles among senior church officials 2012 Event Ahead of court martial, suspect U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning is formally charged with turning over a massive cache of classified documents to Wikileaks 2011 Event Secret documents on Egypt's nuclear power plant are released by WikiLeaks 2010 Event Wikileaks releases 250,000 classified documents and sensitive national security information sent by U.S. embassies; the U.S. condemns the unauthorized disclosure 2010 Event Director of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, announces plans to release remaining Afghan War Diary documents from War in Afghanistan 2010 Event Over 92,000 classified documents detailing incidents related to the war in Afghanistan are released by Wikileaks; this is the largest leak in U.S military history 2004 Event Clinton Library opens in Little Rock Arkansas, containing 2 million photographs and 80 million documents 2003 Event In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush stated that Saddam Hussein had tried to acquire 'significant quantities of uranium from Africa' (a claim substantiated only by forged documents) 1991 Event Court rules Manuel Noriega, may access some secret U.S. documents 1986 Event Oliver North's sect, Fawn Hill, smuggles documents out of his office 1986 Event Institute for War documents publishes Anne Franks complete diary 1918 Event Clemenceau publishes secret French/Austrian documents 1834 Event London parliament catches fire; historic documents burn 1811 Event U.S. Senator Thomas Pickering is 1st senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the president of the U.S.)
