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NEW FOIAs: In recent days, news reports have described unidentified federal officers in unmarked vans detaining protesters in Portland, Oregon. DHS has deployed agents to suppress ongoing protests against police brutality.

We’re demanding answers.
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We want to know what orders have been given to the federal agents—including any directives about the use of force or self-identification.

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Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf has ramped up his rhetoric against “violent anarchists” in Portland and has declared that it is time to “take a stand,” and has deployed federal law enforcement to the city.

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Hours after Wolf visited Portland on Thursday, federal agents deployed tear gas to break up a crowd of demonstrators.

We also requested communications with White House officials about the federal response to the protests.

americanoversight.org/document/foia-…
Learn more about our investigation into law enforcement's response to nationwide protests against racial injustice here:

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NEW: Documents we obtained, reported on by CNN, show Rep. Trey Gowdy worked with Rudy Giuliani on a legal matter ahead of the impeachment proceedings. Gowdy and Giuliani had a meeting with AG Barr and DOJ officials on behalf of a Venezuelan client.

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Rep. Gowdy is a former South Carolina member of Congress who had chaired the House select committee on Benghazi. In fall 2019, Gowdy was briefly named to Trump’s impeachment defense team but ultimately did not join.
On Aug. 23, 2019, Barr met with Giuliani and Gowdy. According to email records, the meeting had been requested by Barr on Aug. 19, contradicting the Justice Department’s previous assertions about Barr’s contacts with Giuliani.

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There are so many stories about corruption in the Trump administration, it’s easy for it to become normalized.

But Trump’s commutation of Roger Stone’s sentence is unbelievably corrupt.

Let’s take a step back and review exactly how unparalleled this is.
After working in politics for nearly 50 years, Stone served as an informal adviser and media surrogate for President Trump’s first campaign. He left in August 2015. Trump claimed he fired Stone although Stone said he quit.
As Wikileaks released emails of Hilary Clinton’s campaign manager John Podesta that had been stolen by Russian intelligence, Stone publicly and privately said he had inside knowledge of the leaks.
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On Friday, the Trump administration overturned a ban on sales of silencers to private overseas buyers.

Records we obtained show the White House adviser who championed the move was invited to meet with gun lobbyists just after the Parkland shooting.

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After a stint at OMB, Michael Williams was named deputy assistant to the president in April 2019. Prior to joining the Trump campaign in 2016, Williams worked for the NRA and the American Suppressor Association, where his brother is the president.
The American Suppressor Association lobbies against regulations on silencers, and Williams worked as the organization’s top lawyer for two years before making his way to the Trump campaign.
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