NEW/BREAKING: DOJ and FBI just released in response to my/@BuzzFeedNews and CNN's #FOIA lawsuit Michael Flynn's 302 from the Mueller probe.

beta.documentcloud.org/documents/2045…
Information from Michael Flynn's 302 is still being withheld by the government ciitng ongoing law enforcement investigation
To be clear about the records the government just turned over here: our lawyers requested the government reprocess the 302s in light of Flynn's pardon and unredact details that could now be disclosed.
The definition of "classic Trump", according to Michael Flynn

#MuellerMemos #FOIA
Trump asked Flynn, "did you lie to Pence?"

Flynn said, "No, I just didn't remember the full conversation."
In 2017, Michael Flynn was being told about the "deep state" by neocon Michael Ledeen
Flynn asked about an "altered" FBI 302s by his contacts such as Barbara Ledeen and, possibly, Sara Carter
Turns out all those newspapers that Trump said are "failing"? He read many of them.
Michael Flynn told FBI he has a strong but unfounded belief that WikiLeaks would release Hillary Clinton's "missing" emails
Weird
Interesting

Also Michael Cohen expressing interest to another person in working for the Trump administration, in the White House
Sean Hannity
Michael Flynn was asked by Mueller's team to recount a conversation he heard on the Trump campaign's plane about a $10 million campaign contribution
"Other than Ivanka Trump, Trump trusted Kushner the most ... When Ivanka came around Trump lit up."
Erik Prince
Giuliani, Wikileaks and Clinton
More on that $10 million campaign contribution that Flynn was asked about by Mueller's team
Michael Flynn does not recall receiving a Ukrainian peace plan from Michael Cohen nor does he recall meeting with him at the White House
Flynn got a package from Egypt when he was still working at the White House. He told the FBI he didn't remember what was in it and, apparently, "he did not review the contents of the package."

Passages of the FBI intv summary that follow are redacted due to ongoing investigation
Flynn got a package from Egypt when he was still working at the White House. He told the FBI he didn't remember what was in it and, apparently, "he did not review the contents of the package."

Passages of the FBI intv summary that follow are redacted due to ongoing investigation
Erik Prince may have helped Steve Bannon prepare executive orders for the Trump administration?
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17 Jan
FYI: The Presidential Records Act allows for access to Presidential records through #FOIA beginning 5 years after the end of the administration, "but allows the President to invoke as many as six specific restrictions to public access for up to twelve years."
Not sure how many people are aware what was behind the passage of the Presidential Records Act in 1978: Congress wanted to prevent Nixon from destroying, selling, or taking a huge tax break for donating his records & the WH conversations he secretly taped
So Congress passed legislation establishing that all Presidential records relating to the duties of the office belong to the American people.
Read 4 tweets
10 Jan
Threats of violence have been standard operating procedure for Trump when things don't go his way as @_rshapiro and I found in FBI documents we pried loose via #FOIA

"If You Keep Fucking With Mr. Trump We Know Where You Live”

Read to the end buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
And from another set of FBI documents we unearthed

A Trump Employee Said He Knew Of Misconduct At The Company. Then He Claimed His Family Was Assaulted

A mother and her young son said they were terrorized by Trump security in 1995

buzzfeednews.com/article/chrism…
Some reporters have characterized Trump's rhetoric as just "mob talk".

But as those documents make clear, it was more than that.
Read 4 tweets
9 Jan
NEW from @a_cormier_ & me: Our first BIG #FOIA release of 2021. 700 pages of emails from GSA abt the behind the scenes drama after administrator Emily Murphy refused to ascertain the election for Biden/Harris. Here's what's missing: Murphy's emails buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
But there are a helluva lot of White House lawyers in these GSA emails
This letter the Biden/Harris Transition Team sent to GSA administrator Emily Murphy regarding her refusal last November to certify them as the winners of the election has not been previously released

GSA reversed course on Nov 23
Read 5 tweets
8 Jan
BREAKING: GSA just turned over in response to my #FOIA request emails & other docs related to the agency's decision not to ascertain Pres elect Biden/VP elect Harris as winner/provide transition funds

These docs were reviewed by the WH before it was released. Will upload cache ImageImage
GSA just turned over more than 700 pages of emails and other documents. Going through them now with @a_cormier_
.@a_cormier_ just found this in our GSA cache of records just turned over in response to our #FOIA request about the transition.

Full story to come ImageImage
Read 4 tweets
4 Jan
NEW/THREAD: A forthcoming analysis from @TRACReports says @BuzzFeedNews has filed more #FOIA lawsuits--58-- than any other media organization in the US during Trump's presidency.

Here's a look back at the secrets my colleagues & I pried loose in 2020

1/ buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
We started off 2020 publishing some of the most important and highly sought-after documents from former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation: summaries of FBI interviews with key White House officials.
buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…

2/
In February 2020, @BuzzFeedNews secured more than 1K pages of emails from NOAA related to Trump’s "doctored" map of Hurricane Dorian — dubbed #SharpieGate — and the panic, outrage, and internal revolt it triggered among top officials at those agencies.
buzzfeednews.com/article/zahrah…

3/
Read 21 tweets
4 Jan
It was only 3 wks ago that I obtained the criminal referral from ODNI that was sent to DOJ & FBI alleging Trump committed crimes related to his call with Ukraine’s president, a conversation that sparked the historic impeachment proceedings against Trump
buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
Obtained via #FOIA
'the President of the United States is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election,' which 'includes, among other things, pressuring a foreign country to investigate one of the President's main domestic political rivals'
Read 4 tweets

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