Enforcing Transparency /// Citizen Oversight /// Undeleting /// FOIA
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.)
• NSA, State Dept, Labor Dept, IRS, others added to Records Destruction Requests
• Don McGahn, Raj Shah, Zina Bash, other White House staff added to Unposted Financial Disclosures
• Detailed catalog of documents added to Dept of the Interior: Records Destruction Request
• Rick Perry (Energy Dept) and Elaine Chao (Transportation Dept) added to Detailed Schedules for Heads of Agencies
• Department of the Interior, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Forest Service, National Institutes of Health, ICE, others added to Records Destruction Requests
• Bureau of Prisons added to Presidential Transition Briefings
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.
Involves 143 tons of “missing” ammonium nitrate and a religious cult, plus allegations of contractor fraud and environmental crime.
NEW: Internal Trump admin email shows @TheJusticeDept discussing the possibility of changing current legal protections that keep census info confidential & that sharing individuals’ responses w law enforcement, national security officers may “come up later for renewed debate”👇
In this week’s batch of #FOIA documents from Government Attic: a bunch of internal material from the National Labor Relations Board and a bit from the National Indian Gaming Commission.
https://t.co/2p52omtVIN
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Fun #FOIA Fact: sometimes the government will tout the number of pages it has released in response to a given request. There are many ways in which this can be a misleading stat. Here, for instance, are 4 “released” — and unredacted! — pages from my lawsuit.
When a rape case is closed, you’d think that meant there was an arrest.
That’s not true for cases cleared by exceptional means.
🔎Could your police department be inflating its rape clearance rates?
https://t.co/KeDtvVfk9Z
This is an outrage. DOJ’s refusing to release Whitaker’s financial disclosure form is illegal, unheard of, and highly suspicious. What is DOJ hiding? https://t.co/QJV1QOj9Ic
