NEW from @ZoeTillman and me. We obtained more than 100 pages of docs via #FOIA from DOJ about the lead up and response to Jan. 6.
One email shows 3 top DOJ officials were told there were “no credible threats” hours before the capitol riot buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
On Jan 5, FBI's Norfolk field office disseminated this report stating it obtained credible info about the potential for violence the next day. The report was covered by WaPo on Jan 12 but it has not been released before (at least in redacted form) buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
These are the Jan. 6 call logs from acting deputy attorney general Richard Donoghue and acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen included in the cache of docs we obtained via #FOIA
I have read thousands of emails between reporters and government flaks over the years and no reporter ever pushes back on spin like @ktbenner does here.
From the cache of docs we just received from DOJ about the lead up to and response to Jan 6.
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Abu Zubaydah is the 1st high value detainee captured by CIA after 9/11 & the guinea pig for the agency s torture program. Today, SCOTUS w/consider whether he can be told of his treatment and where he was held which the US has said is a state secret
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8 years ago, I exclusively obtained the FBI's translations his diaries, which reveal a fascinating story about Abu Zubaydah's journey from computer engineering student in India to mujahedeen fighting in Afghanistan
On June 3, Biden signed EO vowing to make global financial systems more transparent. On that day, a judge sentenced my FinCENFiles source, Natalie Mayflower Edwards, to prison. She did more to bring transparency to the global financial system than almost anyone in recent memory
A story/update about a #FOIA lawsuit against FBI @_rshapiro & I have been battling for yrs
In 1997, The Smoking Gun (remember them?) posted an FBI memo from 1981, along w/file #, that said Donald Trump wanted to build a casino in AC & offered to be an informant for the bureau 1/
I wrote about this document after @NatSecGeek resurfaced it a day before Trump was inaugurated in January 2017
.@_rshapiro & I then filed #FOIA requests with FBI for all documents the FBI had on Trump from 1946 through June 15, 2015, a day before he announced his candidacy for president. We cited the file number from that 1981 FBI memo, which turned out to be someone's informant file
NEW: DOJ just turned over some supplemental material from the FBI 302s related to the Mueller probe in response to my/@BuzzFeedNews & CNN's #FOIA lawsuit. This is the 18th installment in our 2 year effort to liberate all records from the probe.
DOJ reviewed 508 pages of records and only released 73. Records are still being withheld under a number of exemptions, such as ongoing law enforcement proceedings, national security and the withholding of records to protect the physical safety of a wide range of individuals
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The records released here today include redacted subpoenas, emails and text messages and a transcript from a WH press briefing