Enforcing Transparency /// Citizen Oversight /// Undeleting /// FOIA
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.
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 convicted of a crime. I asked the FBI via FOIA...
The drug agency’s little-known animal experiments surface on a government contracting site.
[Exclusive] One of Trump’s first Executive Orders required the creation of a US/Mexico border wall, more detention centers, etc. Here’s Homeland Security’s 90-day progress report about implementing that Executive Order.
[Exclusive] I received the PDF above, with memos for seventeen investigations covering fourteen Assistant US Attorneys, three former AUSAs, two former First Assistant US Attorneys, two senior attorneys, two trial attorneys, and a former senior trial counsel.
PDF: Travel records [193 pages / 38 megs] Released due to FOIA requests from numerous individuals, nonprofits, and media outlets, five PDFs have been combined into the one above. They detail EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s travels February 21, 2017, to February 14, 2018. They also...
Because of various restrictions, Ivanka Trump’s financial disclosures aren’t officially posted online. But most of them can be requested, which is what I’m doing. This page will be updated if and when more become available. [Related: Kushner $$ Watch] Initial financial disclosure (13th revised version)...
An internal report pushes for decriminalization, harm reduction, and other progressive approaches.
Days after signaling his support for unprecedented levels of U.S. defense spending, Republican Sen. James Inhofe reported purchasing stock in a top defense contractor.
After The Daily Beast asked about the purchase, Inhofe dumped the stock. https://t.co/ip99VEAiIL
Such a great idea: @MuckRock is launching a project to explore the “Secret Scandals of the Trump Administration” – those lesser-known scandals that don’t make the front pages.
And they’ll help reporters digging into a specific agency:
https://t.co/KaFmiLu1Qt
The FBI’s FOIA Litigation Unit fights in court against the release of documents. Info about FLU is scarce. Its existence isn’t even mentioned on https://t.co/7KicS86lJr.
Here’s a recently posted job ad for a FLU attorney that gives some info about it:
https://t.co/qt2UJjbC66
