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One of the primary ways we tell our story for archivists, users, and the records is through the practice of advocacy. Nothing could have prepared the author for the onslaught of historical records issues over this past year or two, especially at the federal record level. Public records, including local and state records, are truly essential to the functioning of American democracy. In my years as SAA president and vice president, we have authored numerous issue briefs and position statements, signed letters and petitions, and responded to external requests representing crucial national records concerns.5 The most recent relate to our support of the Presidential Records Act, concern about the illegal removal of Iraqi records from Iraq, and the nomination of Gina Haspel as director of the CIA (given her destruction of records documenting torture). The SAA, along with Council of State Archivists (CoSA), National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators (NAGARA), and Regional Archival Associations Consortium (RAAC), hosted a training day completely dedicated to congressional advocacy where volunteers met with congressional legislators and staffers SAA has also collaborated with other related professional organizations, such as the American Historical Association, the National Humanities Alliance, and the National Coalition for History, an advocacy group that represents many in the history-related professions. This gives us additional flexibility, as well as a moral voice with the addition of powerful voices, when responding to issues of national importance.

President Trump on Jan. 31 said that the reporting on the testimony of Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and CIA Director Gina Haspel was \"fake news.\"

The attorney general released a statement claiming that journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a United States resident, had been killed in a fistfight inside the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul as part of a rogue operation that had been organized by Deputy Director of Intelligence Ahmad al-Asiri. Eighteen Saudis were arrested in connection with his murder, and Asiri along with royal adviser Sa'ud al-Qahtani were dismissed from their posts. The statement drew skepticism from Western officials because of its denial that Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman had approved the operation and its contradiction of Turkish claims that Khashoggi had been tortured before being killed and dismembered at the consulate. Meanwhile, after receiving evidence from Turkish investigators, the public prosecutor admitted that the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul had been premeditated.

Seventeen years after Pres George W. Bush opened the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 40 Muslim men remain in indefinite detention at the facility, even though five have been cleared for release. On January 11, Amnesty International USA and the Congressional Progressive Caucus co-sponsored a briefing at the Longworth House Office building on Capitol Hill to address the status of the infamous prison and its aging population. Dr. Maha Hilal, co-director of the Justice for Muslims Collective, noted, Guatanamo has always existed as one of the most visible and symbolic sites of institutionalized Islamophobia . She also expressed concern that under CIA director Gina Haspel, who oversaw the first CIA black sites, the torture inflicted on prisoners may become even more brutal.

\"2 The President, also, had every incentive to defer to the security managers' judgment, with the result that even a President who campaigned on \"change we can believe in\" ended up continuing the earlier administration's policies on drone strikes, troop deployments, mass surveillance, covert action, whistleblower prosecutions, claims of state secrets, and numerous other matters. The bureaucracy they oversee is massive-over 1,200 government organizations, working with around 2,000 private businesses in over 10,000 locations,5 with an overall annual budget of about $1 trillion.6 This behemoth is the result of an enormous transfer of power since World War II from the Madisonian institutions to the security managers. When the discrepancy becomes too great between the imagined order and the real order, the myth system is discarded. [...]as Harari writes, you never admit that the order is imagined; continuous and strenuous efforts must go into safeguarding it. Security services and managers easily go rogue. 1 Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, The 9/11 Commission Report, 420 (2004).

In recent years, American presidents and other government actors have moved much of their communications with the general public online, through their use of social media. President Donald Trump is particularly known for his use of Twitter and his extensive communications via his account, @realDonaldTrump. Such government social media usage has historically gone unchecked by the courts, but that changed when the Knight Institute brought suit against President Trump for violating the First Amendment rights of users blocked by @realDonaldTrump. This litigation is an illuminating example of why First Amendment analysis must extend to government social media pages, and yet raises new challenges. There are logical reasons why government actors may want to exert certain controls over their social media pages, though these controls will potentially run against the First Amendment. As such, this Note not only argues why First Amendment analysis must extend to government use of social media, but also proposes methods for how government actors might structure their online presences to avoid First Amendment rebuke.