Enforcing Transparency /// Citizen Oversight /// Undeleting /// FOIA
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.
• Rick Perry (Energy Dept) added to Detailed Schedules for Heads of Agencies
• Financial transaction disclosures added to Kusher $$ Watch and Ivanka $$ Watch
• John Bolton & Don McGahn added to Unposted Financial Disclosures
• NSA, State Dept, Labor Dept, IRS, others added to Records Destruction Requests
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.
Exclusive: NSA’s plan to pulp complaints records after one year.
Days after signaling his support for unprecedented levels of U.S. defense spending, Republican Sen. James Inhofe reported purchasing stock in a top defense contractor.
After The Daily Beast asked about the purchase, Inhofe dumped the stock. https://t.co/ip99VEAiIL
Such a great idea: @MuckRock is launching a project to explore the “Secret Scandals of the Trump Administration” – those lesser-known scandals that don’t make the front pages.
And they’ll help reporters digging into a specific agency:
https://t.co/KaFmiLu1Qt
The FBI’s FOIA Litigation Unit fights in court against the release of documents. Info about FLU is scarce. Its existence isn’t even mentioned on https://t.co/7KicS86lJr.
Here’s a recently posted job ad for a FLU attorney that gives some info about it:
https://t.co/qt2UJjbC66
