In today's #PaperTrail:

Biden Rejects More Trump Privilege Claims;
COVID and Stimulus Scams Cost $585M;
Facebook’s Failure to Address Misinformation;
and More.

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In a bombshell article, @hunterw spoke to organizers of the January 6 pro-Trump rallies who say they participated in "dozens" of planning meetings with at least 7 members of Congress, including 1 who discussed a possible pardon rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
60 U.S. Border Patrol agents violated agency rules by sharing violent and obscene posts on Facebook. Only 2 were fired and, as @mariasacchetti & @NickMiroff report, most are back on the job working with migrants washingtonpost.com/immigration/fa…
Nearly a year after lawmakers pushed the U.S. Capitol Police to improve transparency, lawyers for the agency (which is exempt from FOIA) admitted they haven’t yet taken action. Story by @hneidig thehill.com/regulation/cou…
Despite White House pressure on state and local governments to speed up delivery of federal rental aid, @KatyODonnell_ says that less than 1/4 of the $46.5 billion Congress authorized has been disbursed politico.com/news/2021/10/2…
COVID and stimulus scams have cost Americans $585 million, reports @GarinFlowers, and that number is steadily rising news.yahoo.com/covid-19-and-s…

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More from @POGOwatchdog

18 Feb
Today, POGO is releasing our Baker’s Dozen: 13 sets of policy recommendations for Congress and the White House. These recs range from issues we have championed since 1981, to a new and growing focus on equity and fairness in our justice system.
You can read all the details at the link here pogo.org/report/2021/02… or get the overview of each recommendation in the 🧵 below ⬇️
Promoting Accountability When Government Officials Commit Wrongdoing: there are a number of policies we must instate to hold law enforcement accountable and strengthen civil rights.
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17 Feb
Face recognition tech is flawed and biased against people of color and women. Even if it worked as designed, it would be a nightmare. That’s why POGO joined this letter calling for a federal moratorium on the use of facial recognition technology: washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
POGO has been standing up against face recognition tech, most recently calling on CBP to halt its program using this surveillance tool: pogo.org/letter/2020/12…
Never before has the government possessed a surveillance tool this dangerous. @POTUS must honor his promise to center racial equity and put a stop to its use now.
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28 Aug 19
1/ Our @adamzagorin & @schwellenbach report in @YahooNews that @TheJusticeDept's felony case against Monsanto was reduced to a misdemeanor after the company’s lawyer appealed to fmr Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein’s office: bit.ly/2ZBeRrq

Here’s why this is concerning...
2/ “A teaspoon of methyl parathion would kill you.”

Not far from Hawaiian beachside resorts on a windy day in July 2014, Monsanto sprayed much more than that—despite the fact that the pesticide had been banned from use since the end of 2013. bit.ly/30GANia
3/ After EPA investigators & federal prosecutors became aware of Monsanto's practice, a U.S. attorney’s office planned to charge Monsanto w/ a felony violation of the Resource Conservation & Recovery Act: bit.ly/2Hv1gaU
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3 Apr 19
1/ Today, @SenateCommerce approved former AccuWeather CEO Barry Myers' nomination to lead @NOAA—without a confirmation hearing—before the full Senate vote: bit.ly/2WJ0L25

Here's why we think Myers' potential confirmation poses serious ethical concerns...
2/ As our @LPetersonDC reported last December, Myers led a company that profited from NOAA's weather data: bit.ly/2YFmwSi

If weather data is privatized—as Myers proposed in the past—lives could be put at risk if the public can’t freely access warnings on disasters.
3/ In fact, Thomas Fahy—AccuWeather’s lobbyist—has shepherded along Myers’ Senate confirmation, and has other clients with business before the agency.

This makes their financial interests "one and the same," according to @CampaignLegal's @brendan_fischer: bit.ly/2YFmwSi
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