NEW: I filed a #FOIA request with USPS Office of Inspector General to see what was happening at postal facilities around the country right around the presidential election.
This is Philadephia.
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This is North Carolina. The USPS OIG investigated allegations political mail was tossed into a dumpster.
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This is Michigan
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An allegation political mail not delivered by a postal employee who the IG found "made multiple political comments in favor of the Republican party" on his Facebook page.
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This is fascinating from the cache of USPS OIG docs I obtained via #FOIA. It appears to summarize a suspicious activity report like the ones that formed the basis of #FinCENFiles
#Coinbase flagged a postal employee who made more than $113K in crypto transactions over 6 mos
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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.
Just stunning.
Just unreal. Controversial Trump appointee at HHS accusing the media of politicizing Covid as he demands agency officials politicizes agency's Covid response
"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... "
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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"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.
“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
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.
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.