Enforcing Transparency /// Citizen Oversight /// Undeleting /// FOIA
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...
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
