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25 Jan, 5 tweets, 3 min read
The Freedom of Information Act is one of the most important tools in our reporting arsenal. Since 2017, my colleagues & I have forced the release of more than 40K docs & sued the govt 58 times. Last year, we spent $80K on #FOIA legal fees & we plan to spend $100K this year

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PLEASE support our efforts to continue revealing government secrets by becoming a BuzzFeed News member.

100% of your donation will go towards our #FOIA fund

AND if you sign up you'll get details on our next FOIA scoop and other FOIA fodder

support.buzzfeednews.com
Here's the FOIA appeal I sent out to our members today. I hope you will consider signing up.

There's a ton of documents I want to go after.

link.buzzfeed.com/view/5ba888503…
Additionally, I'm always available to answer any #FOIA questions and offer help and guidance.

And I should note as well when we get the documents in question via FOIA, we don’t just report on them, we publish them, making them available for all posterity.
Finally, here's a recap of what we successfully pried loose from government agencies in 2020.
buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…

Our membership drive will continue until March 15th, which happens to be Sunshine Week!
support.buzzfeednews.com

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26 Jan
Last Sept, Politico reported that Trump appointees at HHS interfered with CDC reports on Covid (h/t @azeen)

I got the emails via #FOIA (quoted by Politico) laying bare the political interference by Trump's appointees.

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Just unreal. Controversial Trump appointee at HHS accusing the media of politicizing Covid as he demands agency officials politicizes agency's Covid response

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"Several persons I know who are emergency room who are critical medicine physicians tell me that most of the patients they had in ICU who pass away were very obese and minority... "

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20 Jan
BREAKING: Trump pardons conservative operative Paul Erickson

Just out via WH
Trump pardons former Mayor of Detroit, Kwame Malik Kilpatrick.
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18 Jan
"Pure chaos": US Park Police officers barricaded themselves inside the visitor center at the Washington Monument on Jan 6 to escape a mob of 150 protesters who furiously beat on the plate glass windows.

@bri_sacks & @RosalindZAdams w/the scoop & video

buzzfeednews.com/article/briann…
“People were screaming for help on the radio. It was pure chaos. It sounded like officers were constantly asking for help in certain areas and things were totally out of control,” one officer said.
Huddled inside with a man they had arrested, the dozen or so officers were eventually rescued by another group of Park Police who arrived on horseback and let them out a back door. Soon thereafter, an urgent call came in to send reinforcements to the Capitol building
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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.
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15 Jan
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.
Read 23 tweets
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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.
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