Scott Armstrong (journalist)

A former Senate Watergate investigator and Washington Post reporter, Armstrong founded the National Security Archive in 1985 to do something individual reporters could not: file FOIA requests systematically, pool the declassified results and keep them in one public library. It now holds millions of pages on nuclear policy, Latin American coups and intelligence history, used by historians and truth commissions alike. Armstrong also led the 1989 lawsuit, Armstrong v. Executive Office of the President, that stopped the Reagan White House deleting its Iran-Contra era email and established that government emails are records to be preserved.