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...
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:
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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.
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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.
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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
