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1/ Reporting from @WillCIR and @Cynduja, along with a #FOIA request that accompanied it, has been cited in a brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court as part of Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader case. rcfp.org/foia-protects-…
2/ It's the first time the Supreme Court is officially determining what "confidential business information" is.
3/ The brief cites our experience with tech companies who tried to conceal their EEO-1 records, which provide the clearest available picture of their internal diversity stats. revealnews.org/article/heres-…
4/ Some of these companies even tried to hide their correspondences with the Department of Labor, claiming they were business secrets.
5/ Along the way, they trotted out some outlandish excuses: revealnews.org/article/oracle…
6/ We didn't agree that diversity data is a trade secret.

So we sued.

And won: revealnews.org/blog/we-got-th…
7/ More from @rcfp here:
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1/ Your chances in immigration court depend a lot on which judge hears your case.

On this week’s new episode, @patrickmichels interviews a judge who ordered people deported more often than almost any other judge in the country. revealnews.org/episodes/trans…
2/ Judge Lorraine Muñoz worked in Los Angeles, where ICE had a special detention unit for transgender women. As one of 2-3 judges who heard those cases, she had a huge impact on trans women seeking asylum.
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1/ We are thrilled to announce that we're up for three @PeabodyAwards for our work investigating modern-day redlining, the money behind Confederate monuments and California's wildfires: peabodyawards.com/stories/story/…
2/ "Kept Out," our investigation into modern-day redlining, was a collaboration with @prx, @NewsHour and @AP. We found that across the U.S. people of color continue to be denied conventional mortgage loans at rates far higher than their white counterparts. revealnews.org/episodes/the-r…
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We found that in the last decade alone, American taxpayers have spent at least $40 million on Confederate monuments and groups that perpetuate racist ideology. revealnews.org/episodes/monum…
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1/ We've reported quite a bit on the Trump administration's dismantling of science. Here's what it looks like in practice.

In Feb, we showed that David Bernhardt, Trump's pick to lead @Interior, played a key role in gutting migratory birds protections. revealnews.org/article/trumps…
2/ Now, internal government emails obtained by @ShogrenE provide evidence of federal wildlife agents opting out of investigations and enforcement, citing this policy change as the reason. revealnews.org/article/killin…
3/ For example, after a pipeline burst in Idaho last April, spilling diesel into a pond and wetland, two coolers full of dead birds were dropped off at the Fish and Wildlife office in Boise.
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Jason Leopold
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This is what #FOIA torture is like.

After 5 yrs IRS finally produced records responsive to my request. They sent me a CD with the files. But I cannot access them!

They said they are going to mail me a separate letter BY MAIL containing the password!!
The IRS #FOIA ransom letter containing the password to access my documents, which were .exe files, just arrived.
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Here they are for anyone who may be interested

To say this was a painstaking process would be an understatement

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The FBI's #FOIA office is the worst, perhaps the worst of all federal government agencies. Just opened a letter in response to request I filed five years ago. Instead of searching for new records responsive to my request, the bureau gave me a set of records it already released 1/
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I literally spend years fighting with these agencies, especially FBI, trying to get them to follow the law and release records under the #FOIA. What these agencies do in response is try to figure out ways to thwart requesters and violate the law.
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🦅Submitted?🦅

FWIW:

Rumor haz it Barr has Mueller Report, at issue can POTUS be indicted—no one is above the law.

If any indictments unsealed re Trump kids, etc, perhaps opportunity to surrender?

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Joe Rose
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1/ THREAD - Here's my experience in attempting to #FOIA Brett #Kavanaugh's records as GW Bush's Staff Secretary. Spoiler alert, I didn't get them which is why it's all the more critical that his nomination be postponed until we do.
2/ On Saturday, 8/11/2018, I submitted my first ever FOIA request asking for all records relating to Brett #Kavanuagh's tenure as Staff Secretary for the GW Bush admin. I didn't really know what I was doing but thought it was worth a shot.
3/ The FOIA request was sent to the GW Bush Library. On Monday, two days later, I received an email from a FOIA coordinator with a link to Kavanaugh records! I thought I got them released! Shows how naiive I was…they already had some public. georgewbushlibrary.smu.edu/~/link.aspx?_i…
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Jason Leopold
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Pull up a chair.

I want to tell you a story about my three year #FOIA squabble with CIA.

1/
In early 2013, I filed a #FOIA request w/CIA for a list of inspector general investigations into waste, fraud, abuse, whistleblowing, crimes. It took 2 yrs for CIA to send me the list. Then I filed a separate request for the IG rpts on this list and then I sued CIA for it.

2/
One such CIA IG report on this list that caught my attention was titled:

"Alleged Employee Misconduct and the Illegal Killing of Animal on Federal Property"

I wanted this report and it is one of the dozens I sued over.

3/
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Part 7.
Part 6 was rough, I’m sorry, but I meant to illustrate to you that these are people. Not stats that are “collateral damage” because it’s less expensive to pollute and pay fines (if you’re caught) than to pay the price of cleaning it up and fixing the problems.
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I’ll quote Gerald E. Connolly, U.S. Representative for Virginia, because he was spot on: “Koch Brothers’ direct contributions have been an investment well worth it. It’s certainly a lot less expensive than actually having to retrofit factories.”
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