Enforcing Transparency /// Citizen Oversight /// Undeleting /// FOIA
“While this effort did develop a great deal of intelligence and confirmation of the systemic corruption in the Afghan mining industry, it did not produce any actionable information that could be used in a U.S. or Afghan criminal prosecution.”
• New page: Watchdogs
• Previously unreleased pages added to George Harrison’s FBI File
• 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
All of the proposed changes to the Interior Dept’s FOIA regulations clearly presented in context.
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.
Government data obtained by @AP shows the US approved requests by men to bring thousands of child brides into the country by @ctlong1 https://t.co/WayxajBYnq
NEW #FOIAFriday: 17 yrs ago today, a detention facility was opened at #Guantanamo to indefinitely detain “war on terror” captives. Yet, operations remain shrouded in secrecy
So, I sought ALL the recent SOPs in hopes of lifting that veil. Here they are:
https://t.co/sbWvVZgfjM
You think the U.S. Navy, now 243 years old, would know how to build warships. But you would be wrong, as its bumbled buy of $8 billion destroyers—per ship, not per fleet—makes clear.
https://t.co/PKVgcS04gq
Reminder: the @USNatArchives was totally fine with allowing ICE to destroy all records related to deaths and rapes in their custody. They only said “hmmm, maybe we’ll look at this proposed records retention policy a little more” after public outcry.
https://t.co/fAw4RYapWS
NEW: Outrage over Labor Secretary Acosta’s plea deal with billionaire Jeffrey Epstein when Acosta was a prosecutor have renewed calls for more independent and transparent Justice Department investigations.
Our @schwellenbach has the story: https://t.co/2guoo3sUBM
