Thread by @maggiekb1

This made me curious of the identities of the rest of the "Vexsome 11".

First up, Ryan Shapiro - MIT grad student, animal rights activist, Trump administration transparency activist chronicle.com/article/The-Gr…

https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1141075075694768129

Luke Nichter: history professor at Texas A&M and one of the nation's foremost experts on the Nixon tapes. Suddenly interested in whatever book he's working on. tamuct.edu/directory/dir-…

Who are the Vexsome 11, top FOIA-ers in America? #3

Emma Best: Journalist and transparency activist. Some of her work has exposed stuff Wikileaks tried to keep secret. cjr.org/tow_center/emm…
She has a Patreon: patreon.com/EmmaBest

America's 4th vexomest citizen (according to the FBI), Trevor Griffey: labor studies historian who lectures at a couple California universities and co-founded the Seattle Civil Rights & Labor History Project depts.washington.edu/civilr/griffey…

5th on the FBI's list of "people we are sick of processing FOIAs from": Parker Higgins.

Higgins is director of special projects at the Freedom of the Press Foundation (which is a badass title, let's be real). Does a lot of work on copyright and IP. freedom.press/people/parker-…

6th: Justin Dugard

This one is interesting. I'm not 100% about his deal. Some of his requests say "private citizen". Some say "public citizen" but I don't know if that's @PublicCitizenTX. He's into anti-racketeering files. Writes mafia history mafiahistory.us/a013/f_byrum.h…

@PublicCitizenTX Vexsome FOIAer #7: John Greenewald
He's a UFO researcher who appears frequently on Coast to Coast AM. coasttocoastam.com/guest/greenewa…

@PublicCitizenTX Just to be perfectly clear about my biases: This Vexsome FOIA Requester list appears to double as an invite list to a really awesome dinner party. Onward to #8 ...

@PublicCitizenTX Number 8 appears to be the Matthew Cecil who is dean of humanities at UofM, Mankato (MN! Woo!). He's doing research on the CIA's use of public relations. Cool interview here: american-journalism.org/author-intervi… Also good reading: tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

@PublicCitizenTX Ken Klippenstein, #9, is the guy who was tweeting about this list earlier.

https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1141075075694768129

. He's an investigative reporter who writes for The Daily Beast and The Young Turks. Focused on national security.

@PublicCitizenTX No. 10 is Clay Keys.
Like Dugard, his FOIA habit does not appear to be his job. He's into nuclear testing, EMP reports, FOIAing information on other people's FOIAs.

He might be the same Clay Keys who is in prison for child porn? IDK. justice.gov/usao-ndfl/pr/r…

@PublicCitizenTX More definitively in prison is #11, Julian Tarver. Woof. This guy. Son of former members of the People's Temple (as in Jonestown). Long and gross sex offender rap sheet. Banned by the state of Wash from making any more records requests w/o a court order webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache…

@PublicCitizenTX And that's the FBI's Vexsome 11 for 2018! A bunch of journalists, activists, and historians. A UFO guy. And a couple scary dudes being bored in prison.

Let's limit the dinner party to numbers 1-9, shall we?