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.
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.)
Involves 143 tons of “missing” ammonium nitrate and a religious cult, plus allegations of contractor fraud and environmental crime.
150 pages of FBI material on Google.
{Exclusive} Previously unseen documents about Google’s privacy practices, as required by a Federal Trade Commission order.
Renaissance Technologies, the company that made a billionaire out of alt-right funder Robert Mercer, was under federal investigation for almost two years. In the end, it was decided that the activities didn’t “rise to the level of criminal conduct.”
Now all the ads are easily viewable online.
Two Harvard researchers compared almost four decades’ worth of internal, scientific, and external documents from Exxon, showing that the giant oil corporation privately knew about and accepted climate change while publicly proclaiming doubt. Their...
So I created an account on Utah’s Open Records Portal, and they ask some password-recovery questions I haven’t seen before. 💋 😅
How the Pentagon escaped an audit for almost thirty years by making the biggest accounting mess in history: feature https://t.co/sc1Cx0jpEl
ICYMI, @jessiereport put together a great round-up of all the #FOIA-related legislation currently being considered – the good, the bad, and the #Kansas https://t.co/6heakcaEsn
In all my #FOIA years I have never seen a more convoluted FOIA than this one from HUD. Except for the one that listed all employees and their salaries on a printed spreadsheet in random order…from HUD. https://t.co/YqyUFGK6PY
More lawyers, reporter stopped and questioned at border by U.S. officials https://t.co/rR8fVNYmzD
