Enforcing Transparency /// Citizen Oversight /// Undeleting /// FOIA
• Transportation Security Administration added to Records Destruction Requests
• DOJ: Justice Management Division FY2017 added to FOIA Land
• Rick Perry (Energy Dept) added to Detailed Schedules for Heads of Agencies
• Financial transaction disclosures added to Kusher $$ Watch and Ivanka $$ Watch
Previously unreleased photos of Secretary of Energy Rick Perry at meetings, conferences, and sitting in sweet cars. Cameos by Zinke, Pruitt, Trump, and Bill Gates.
Previously unreported: US Attorneys Office and FBI opened a case regarding Whole Foods co-founder John Mackey’s secret postings to an online stock forum. They closed the case when the SEC declined to pursue charges after its own investigation.
During the summer, the Drug Enforcement Administration pulled down all issues of its newsletter for drug warriors, plus six years of its chemistry journal. They’re reposted here, as convenient collections.
I just posted two huge FOIA releases from EPA regarding the Volkswagen emission-rigging scandal: 194 spreadsheets and 7 big PDFs (530 megs) and 8 years of email between EPA and VW (3.5 gigs). (Original FOIA requests from reporters at Reuters and Bloomberg.)
As part of the standard process of determining when federal agencies can destroy their documents, the Department of the Interior is asking for permission to destroy massive amounts of existing and future records, as well as keeping other records permanently.
{Exclusive} What’s on the FBI’s internal version of Netflix? For the first time, here’s the menu for FBI TV, the streaming video service available as part of the Bureau’s intranet site (BUNET).
Rare videos of interviews about polygraphs, introduced and explained by a groundbreaking researcher.
{Exclusive} The closing memo of the investigation into SirVic and accomplices. [Photo: Hermes III gamma ray machine at Sandia National Laboratories]
{Exclusive} Previously unreleased, this is the standard letter that ICE sends to the next-of-kin of people who die in ICE custody.
My latest for @DeSmog -Louisiana Sheriff Who Criticized Pipeline Opponents Is Ordered to Release Records on Standing Rock Visit https://t.co/WEajTNvKLx
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Holy shit! Today, the Interior Dept proposed drastic changes to how all its agencies process FOIA requests.
This is in ADDITION to the FOIA changes it already made before Thanksgiving.
The only unlocked article on this I see so far is here:
https://t.co/ACoyDD2Sq8
Attn energy and enviro reporters: I hope you’ll go through these photos with a fine-tooth comb and let us know who Perry has been having undisclosed meetings with.
NEW: @SecNielsen still hasn’t “gotten back to me” on the number of asylum seekers who have died on her watch. I just sent the letter below to her. This is SHAMEFUL!
