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25 Nov, 9 tweets, 5 min read
Some Michael Flynn and Trump memories courtesy of FBI 302s we obtained via #FOIA

That time Donald Trump was very upset with Michael Flynn in 2017.

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Trump promised Michael Flynn a "good recommendation" after he was fired

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Not #FOIA
Hope Hicks told Mueller's investigators that Trump was bothered by “bad tweets” posted by Michael Flynn, and his son, Michael Flynn, Jr. She added that Trump thought Flynn “had bad judgment”

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Steve Bannon told the FBI that after the 2016 election Michael Flynn sought out Obama's national security adviser Susan Rice and her deputy, Ben Rhodes, for advice “about how to do things.”

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Chris Christie had lunch with Trump on Valentine's Day 2017. Trump told him, "Now that we fired Flynn, the Russia thing is over."

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Reince Priebus told Mueller's investigators that there was one point when Trump was "so upset" with Michael Flynn "that he wouldn't even look at him during intelligence briefings"

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A Jan 24, 2017 email I obtained via #FOIA from DOJ's Counterespionage Section reveals that Michael Flynn was, at the time, the subject of a Counterespionage probe related to his work for Turkey.

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Read all of the stories and the docs @BuzzFeedNews and I pried loose via #FOIA over the past 4 years related to Flynn here

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9 Nov
An amazing email that took me 7 yrs to pry out of GTMO via #FOIA

In Jan 2013, a guard in a watchtower shot non lethal rounds at detainees. The watchtower was referred to as "Shotgun Towers." Guards were told not to say that b/c it could end up on the internet

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This email was clearly overclassified. There is nothing in it that would raise to the level of SECRET/NOFORN. It's just that it was politically sensitive as the email states and Guantanamo brass feared blowback
I wrote about this incident, which preceded a mass hunger strike at Guantanamo in 2013.

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7 Nov
Under the Presidential Records Act, Presidential records are automatically transferred into the legal custody of the Archivist as soon as the president leaves office

The public can #FOIA those docs after 5 yrs but the president can invoke exemptions to keep secret up to 12 yrs
Interestingly, Biden vice presidential records will be subject to #FOIA on Jan. 20, 2022.
The PRA "establishes procedures for Congress, courts, and subsequent Administrations to obtain 'special access' to records from NARA that remain closed to the public, following a privilege review period by the former and incumbent Presidents"
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3 Nov
🚨Hours before Election Day, DOJ releases 13 secret pgs of Mueller's report in response to our #FOIA lawsuit that contains revelatory details about the probe into Asaange, WikiLeaks, Stone re: DNC hack & decisions not to charge them

@kenbensinger & me
buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/jasonl…
The newly visible sections, found in the table of contents as well as on pages 9, 51, 65, 174, 176-179, 188-189, and 190-191, deal almost entirely with charging decisions by members of Mueller’s team regarding the hacks and WikiLeaks’ publication of the stolen emails.
The newly unveiled sections also include a small but noteworthy revelation previously redacted due to an ongoing investigation regarding Russian attempts to hack a company that makes voter registration software. The name of the company, VR Systems, had been redacted until now.
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1 Nov
TOMORROW: After 1.5 yrs of litigation, DOJ w/be unredacting at least 15 pages of key sections of Mueller's report in response to my/@BuzzFeedNews & @EPICprivacy's #FOIA lawsuit

Relates to WikiLeaks/DNC email hack/Trump's campaign's interest

BACKGROUND: buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
ADDITIONALLY: Tomorrow, @BuzzFeedNews and I and CNN will receive another production of FBI 302s (witness interview summaries) from the Mueller investigation in response to our #FOIA lawsuits. #MuellerMemos
We have been aggressively fighting for the release of documents for nearly 4 years with more than three dozen #FOIA lawsuits filed against multiple govt agencies. PLEASE support our sunshine efforts.

support.buzzfeednews.com
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28 Oct
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

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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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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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