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2 Feb, 4 tweets, 5 min read
NEW: Records Pried Loose By @BuzzFeedNews via #FOIA Have Prompted A Demand For The Investigation Of Former Trump Health Officials

@OpenTheGov & @GovAcctProj sent letter to OSC stating HHS spox Michael Caputo & his science advisor violated "anti-gag" law buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
Here's the letter signed by @GovAcctProj's @mcculloughirvin and @OpenTheGov calling for OSC to investigate Caputo's violations of anti gag provision in the Whistleblower Protection Act
Another example of how @BuzzFeedNews and I have been aggressively using #FOIA over the past 4 years and the impact from our disclosures. Please sign up for a membership and fund our 2021 FOIA battles!

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After Michael Caputo's disastrous tenure at HHS where he clamped down on CDC and HHS personnel from speaking with the media about Covid-19, his replacement at the agency said HHS has issued new media guidance this month.

Here's a copy

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28 Jan
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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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.

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

Via my #FOIA
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25 Jan
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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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

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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.

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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

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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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