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.
{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).
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.
1,322 pages, mainly covering FBI’s investigation into violations of prisoners’ civil rights during and after the retaking of the prison.
And the National Archives has given them preliminary approval.
It’s largely forgotten now, but for a few months as the 1950s became the 1960s, there was a tsunami of painted swastikas and similar hateful incidents around the world.
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.”
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was the pioneer of hardboiled detective fiction, writing the classics The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man, among others.
PDF portfolios: One /// Two /// Three /// Four /// Five On November 3, 1979, in Greensboro, North Carolina, members of the KKK and the American Nazi Party opened fire on an anti-Klan rally. Five protesters were murdered. No one was ever...
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
