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28 Oct, 6 tweets, 5 min read
1 year ago today, @RMac18 & I reported this based on emails I/@BuzzFeedNews obtained from DHS via our #FOIA lawsuit.

Google Staffer Miles Taylor Helped Sell Trump's Family Separation Policy, Despite The Company Denials, Emails Show

buzzfeed.com/ryanmac/miles-…

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I am still receiving Miles Taylor emails in response to my #FOIA lawsuit and you can be sure I be aggressively challenging the redactions.

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It turns out that a year ago, I also filed a #FOIA lawsuit against FBI and other agencies for documents they had about the Anonymous op-ed published in the NYT

Some of those records are still being processed

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Here's some of the documents FBI turned over to me via #FOIA about the Anonymous op-ed (now revealed to be written by Miles Taylor). Just a bunch of people speculating about the author

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Ugh. *I will be*

(I be illin)
If @MilesTaylorUSA wants to identify any specific records I can #FOIA and sue the govt for that would further lay bare how bad it was inside DHS (and elsewhere) I would be happy to receive that information.

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23 Oct
NEW: Major impact from our #FinCENFiles investigation:

UK Lawmakers Are Launching A Formal Inquiry Based On The FinCEN Files

Parliament’s Treasury Committee announced the inquiry just after midnight local time on Friday.
buzzfeednews.com/article/tomwar…

@tombwarren @Richard_AHolmes
Mel Stride, the committee’s conservative chair, said the inquiry will examine what progress government regulators and law enforcement have made in preventing money laundering.
“It’s important that the relevant bodies are held to account and scrutinised effectively to ensure that the UK is a clean place to do business,” Stride wrote in a statement.
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22 Oct
Last Nov, Sens Grassley & Johnson sent a letter to FinCEN Director Ken Blanco requesting suspicious activity reports on Hunter Biden, Burisma & others

FinCEN swiftly turned over docs & the sens have been sitting on it for a year waiting for the right moment to weaponize it

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In comparison, when the Senate Intelligence Committee requested suspicious activity reports on individuals & entities related to Trump & his campaign as part of their Russia probe FinCEN in some instances did not turn over any SARs or made the committee wait.

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Some of those latter SARs formed the basis of the #FinCENFiles

It's unclear to me what the records FinCEN turned over on Hunter Biden say or how Grassley/Johnson intend to use it w/media, if at all

But I'll just note FinCEN made this statement prior to #FinCENFiles pubbing

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22 Oct
ICYMI: We had a good run and brought our #FOIA challenge related to Trump's Oct 6 declassification tweets all the way up to the WH, forcing Mark Meadows to sign a sworn declaration stating that Trump told him he didn't mean what he tweeted

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 buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
Today Judge Reggie Walton sided with govt but in my opinion reluctantly. He said: "It is unfortunate that we are in this situation because obviously where there are references to the declassification of classified info, those words spoken should be artfully spoken.."

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Judge Walton said Trump's tweets were "Inartful."

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17 Oct
From our #FinCENFiles investigation: Bank of America flagged $500K Michael Flynn's company received for his secret Turkish lobbying in 2016 as suspicious. But the bank didn't file a suspicious activity report w/#FinCEN until after Trump fired him
This new information highlights a major finding of the #FinCENFiles investigation: Banks often miss suspicious transactions when they occur.
The details in Bank of America’s May 4, 2017 suspicious activity report, or SAR, shed light on Flynn’s actions at a time when they, and his legal fate, are the subject of intense scrutiny.
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16 Oct
This is INCREDIBLE

Judge Reggie Walton: I think when a president makes an unambiguous statement that he was declassifying information I don't think anything more is required. He clearly has indicated intent.

Walton wants WH counsel to speak to Trump about his tweets/intent
HOLY SHIT!

Judge Walton continues this hearing until next week. He specifically wants govt atty to get WH counsel to speak to Trump and find out intent of his declassification tweets and submit with the court
HISTORIC day. Govt attorneys can't just say Trump's tweets are meaningless and we should not take his orders seriously as they have been doing for 3+ years.

Now, govt attorneys must find out directly from the president what his intent was and file it with the court.

#FOIA
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13 Oct
BREAKING: DOJ says WH did not send a declassification order re: Trump's tweets about "declassifying" all "Russia hoax" docs.

This is in response to 1 of 3 emergency motions @BuzzFeedNews & I filed.

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THE PRESIDENT'S STATEMENTS ON TWITTER DID NOT DECLASSIFY ANY INFORMATION--DOJ Image
Short of getting thousands of unredcated documents, this is exactly what I had hoped to pry loose out of DOJ.
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