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BREAKING: Judicial Watch filed a FOIA lawsuit against the Department of Justice for any & all records related to the FBI’s April 9th raid on the office, home, and hotel room of then-personal attorney to President Donald Trump, Michael Cohen. (1/8)
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On April 9th, the FBI raided the home, office, & hotel room of President Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen. Prosecutors obtained the search warrant after a referral from Special Counsel Mueller’s office conveyed thru Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein. (2/8)
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JW’s lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the Justice Dept failed to respond to three separate FOIA requests (directed to the Office of the Attorney General, the Exec Offices for U.S. Attorneys, & the DOJ). (3/8)
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JW asked the Office of the Attorney General for any & all records of communications between the Office of Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein & the Office of Special Counsel Mueller related to the April 9th raids on the office and hotel room of Michael Cohen. (4/8)
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JW asked the Executive Offices for United States Attorneys for information (including the application & affidavits) related to the search & seizure warrant executed by the FBI for the April 9th raids at the office and hotel room of Michael Cohen. (5/8)
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JW asked the DOJ for all records of communications between Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein / Special Counsel Mueller and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for SDNY about Michael Cohen and/or the executed search warrants of Cohen’s office, home, and hotel room. (6/8)
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Lawyers for President Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen reportedly completed their review of the more than four million seized files from the FBI’s April 9th raids and “found that 12,061 are privileged and shouldn’t be viewed by government lawyers.” (7/8)
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JW Prez @TomFitton: On its face, the raid on then-President Trump’s lawyer seemed abusive & out of line, so it’s not surprising that Special Counsel Mueller & DOJ would ignore FOIA law and refuse to respond to requests about this extraordinary raid. (8/8)
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BREAKING: Judicial Watch signed a settlement agreement with the State of California & the County of L.A. under which they’ll begin the process of removing from voter registration rolls up to 1.5 million inactive registered names that may be invalid. (1/8)
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This Judicial Watch lawsuit confirmed that Los Angeles County has on its rolls 1.5 million or more potentially ineligible voters. This means over one in every five L.A. County registrations likely belongs to a voter who has moved or is deceased. (2/8)
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This JW lawsuit related to the National Voter Registration Act also uncovered the stunning fact that neither the State of California nor Los Angeles County had been removing inactive voters from their voter registration rolls for the past 20 years. (3/8)
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NEW: JW filed an amicus curiae brief in the Supreme Court in an effort to overturn a decision of the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that upheld Utah’s law engineered by GOP legislators to compel GOP members to change how they choose candidates. (1/3)
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Until 2014, GOP members elected delegates to represent them at the nominating convention, which selected candidates for the general election ballot. But the Utah legislature enacted SB 54, which effectively compels parties to hold primary elections. (2/3)
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JW President @TomFitton: Republican power-brokers in Utah hate party conventions which they can’t control, so they passed an unconstitutional law to control the party at the expense of grassroots activists. The Supreme Court shouldn’t let this stand. (3/3)
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BREAKING: Judicial Watch announced it filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Department of Justice for records of the costs incurred by and for records of the logs maintained by the security detail for Special Counsel Robert Mueller. (1/5)
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In a related Oct. 2017 lawsuit, DOJ refused to release Mueller’s budget, but later was forced to release details from the redacted Aug. 2nd memo where Deputy AG Rosenstein gave broad authority to Mueller – three months after Mueller’s appointment. (2/5)
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JW is also pursuing multiple other FOIA lawsuits on the surveillance, unmasking, & illegal leaking that targeted President @realDonaldTrump & associates during the FBI's investigation of potential Russian involvement in 2016’s presidential election. (3/5)
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Been a pretty shitty year for #FOIA. Govt agencies continue to thwart the release of records. But I was still able to pry loose a few gems.

Here's a thread to highlight all of the news stories I published at @BuzzFeedNews in 2018 based on docs I obtained via #FOIA ICYMI 1/
People Actually Complained That TV Networks Repeated Trump's "Shithole" Comment

After news networks quoted the president talking about "shithole countries," audience members complained to the FCC — and @BuzzFeedNews obtained their complaints. #FOIA 2/

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Trump Transition Records, A Source Of Friction With Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Were Almost Destroyed

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RELEASE: FBI just sent me ~29,000 pages from their file on President Reagan and his time as an FBI informant – and lots more muckrock.com/foi/united-sta… #FOIA
For comparison, this is over 10x more than what the FBI posted to their website.
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Over the past couple of days, journalists have been reminded of steps we need to take to safeguard our comms and protect our sources while working on news reports

It's also impt to note what happens after news stories are published that are based on nonpublic/classified info 1/
Every government agency on a near daily basis scrutinizes news stories for classified, secret or non public information. 2/
Personnel at the government agency fills out a media leaks questionnaire and identifies the nonpublic/classified info contained in the news report.

(I obtained a copy of one such questionnaire and example of some media leaks via FOIA: documentcloud.org/documents/3859…) 3/
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THREAD: What does news that Michael Cohen was wiretapped tell us about the investigation of him? (Short answer: A lot.)
1/ Today @NBCNews reported that federal law enforcement wiretapped Michael Cohen’s phones in the weeks leading up to the search of his office, home, and hotel room. nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna8…
2/ As a starting point, a wiretap means federal law enforcement was investigating *ongoing* criminal activity. In order to obtain a wiretap, investigators had to convince a judge that Cohen would use the phone to communicate regarding criminal activity during the 30-day period.
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UNREAL

In my/@BuzzFeedNews ongoing #FOIA lawsuit against multiple govt agencies for documents on Mikhail Lesin, the founder of RT who authorities say got drunk, fell down numerous times in his DC hotel room and died, DOJ just sent me 32 pages of this.
#FOIAFriday: Here is an update on my/@BuzzFeedNews #FOIA lawsuit against multiple government agencies for documents on Mikhail Lesin, the founder of RT who authorities claim got drunk, fell down multiple times in his Dupont Circle hotel room and died. 1/
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