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4 Mar, 6 tweets, 4 min read
NEW deep dive by @bri_sacks & me. We obtained 81 pages of docs & pics via #FOIA from Federal Protective Service about the intel they had in the lead up to the Capitol riots and the day of the insurrection. Good stuff here.
buzzfeednews.com/article/briann…
Here's the full set of documents.

(WaPo, @FOIANate and team, also reported on this today.)
beta.documentcloud.org/documents/2049…
DHS Federal Protective Service were monitoring live streams of the Jan 6 insurrection. Faces were redacted in the documents the agency turned over to us.
Some of the information in these documents were withheld by Federal Protective Service due to ongoing law enforcement investigations, privacy and because disclosure could threaten the life of individuals, such as law enforcement officers and informants
Federal Protective Service email 2:14 pm Jan 6: "CAPITOL HAS BEEN BREACHED PROTESTERS ARE NOW INSIDE THE CAPITOL"

Two minutes later

"OFFICERS ARE GETTING SPRAYED WITH OC"
On January 6 at 2 pm, a Federal Protective Service Regional Director sent an email saying the night before "rally members attempting to sleep in their cars at the Reagan building which was detected" by physical safety officers and inspectors.

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5 months after the release of #FinCENFiles

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23 Feb
BOOM: Capitol Police is not subject to #FOIA so @BuzzFeedNews & I are using another tool to lift the veil of secrecy & gain access to a wide range of docs about the inner workings of the police force: the common law right of access. NEW lawsuit just filed
washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
Here's the complaint filed today by our attorney @_LightLaw

Please support our efforts and our battle to make these documents public. Sign up for a @BuzzFeedNews membership

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Although most cases involving the common law right of access to govt docs involve records in the custody of the judicial branch, the DC Circuit has made clear that the right applies to all 3 branches of the federal govt and is not limited to records similar to court documents.
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6 Feb
Saturday SCOOP: The man overseeing President Joe Biden's daily intelligence briefing previously advocated for the CIA’s false claims about its torture program to a powerful Senate committee.

w/@a_cormier_

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Veteran CIA intel analyst Morgan Muir was one of Biden's briefers delivering the PDB. When we contacted ODNI about his role in defending CIA torture program the agency said he would not be at WH on a daily basis briefing Biden

Yesterday, ODNI said he wouldnt be at WH at all

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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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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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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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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
Trump appointee at HHS

"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... "

Via my #FOIA
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