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5 Jan, 6 tweets, 4 min read
NEW: @BuzzFeedNews & I sued the govt under #FOIA for docs about it's sale of Wu-Tang Clan's Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. We obtained amazing new pics of it, bill of sale, purchase agreement & more. But govt claims sale price of album is a trade secret!
buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
Thanks to our #FOIA atty @jloevy for working to get these Wu-Tang docs released on our behalf!
According to a copy of the five-page purchase agreement, the album was sealed with “tamper-proof evidence tape” and delivered to the new owners “in that state.”
This is the "asset list" we obtained from the govt via #FOIA of what was sold in the Wu-Tang Clan auction for Once Upon a Time in Shaolin
This is a copy of a previously undisclosed letter lawyer Peter Scoolidge sent prosecutors in March 2018 after Shkreli was ordered to forfeit Once Upon a Time in Shaolin

At the time, Scoolidge represented co producer Cilvaringz who was prepared to litigate to stop the forfeiture
I have been on the Wu-Tang Clan beat for a long time!

vice.com/en/article/vdq…

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27 Dec 21
This year, the US government continued to try and stonewall my attempts to pry loose documents via #FOIA. So @BuzzFeedNews & I filed dozens of public records lawsuits against recalcitrant agencies. We prevailed and we broke news.

Here's some of my greatest hits.

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January: These Emails Reveal The Drama Behind The GSA’s Decision Not To Certify Biden’s Win

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January: Another batch of documents from my long running quest to liberate all the documents from the Mueller investigation.

The FBI Just Released Its Secret Interviews With Michael Flynn

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15 Dec 21
NARA just released a trove of JFK assassination records

archives.gov/research/jfk/r…
The release of these JFK assassination records is in response to a memo Biden issued in Oct, which also allowed agencies to postpone the release of other docs "to protect against identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations," etc

whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
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13 Dec 21
NEW/SCOOP: Docs I obtained via #FOIA showed Trump appointee Michael Caputo warned govt employees last year not to speak with the media during COVID-19

@GovAcctProj & @OpenTheGov demanded an investigation

OSC just found HHS violated the law buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
These are some of Michael Caputo's emails I obtained via #FOIA that led HHS to take corrective action after OSC investigated.
On Nov. 15, Timothy Cheng, an attorney in OSC's investigation and prosecution division, sent a letter to @OpenTheGov & @GovAcctProj confirming that HHS violated the law
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3 Dec 21
THREAD: Some background on how this story @a_cormier_ and I reported came together, which is also a story about #FOIA

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I have been reporting on CIA on and off for more than 15 yrs. But everything the agency does is considered classified at some level. So obtaining info about an operation or a program or what's taking place behind the scenes at the agency means relying on anonymous sources

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The best way to keep a check on intel agencies like CIA & to learn about what's going on inside the agency is by requesting via FOIA inspector general reports from closed investigations

That's what I did. I first requested copies of reports from closed investigations in 2012

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1 Dec 21
ALSO: I obtained hundreds of other CIA IG via #FOIA & I'm sharing them all here. More than 3K pages covering a wide range of investigations such as an employee who used government computer systems to resell more than 700 items purchased at yard sales.
documentcloud.org/documents/2111…
More recent reports show that a CIA employee was investigated in October 2018 for using agency computer systems and databases to conduct “unofficial searches” on her brother, and that the IG substantiated allegations that year that another CIA employee violated the Hatch Act
In the Hatch Act case, the CIA IG found the employee used their work computer to make donations to political campaigns

CIA worked w/the Office of Special Counsel. But OSC opted not to punish the employee

Here's where it gets meta: I FOIA'd OSC for docs abt it & they GLOMAR'd me
Read 6 tweets
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1 Dec 21
NEW from @a_cormier_ & me: CIA Docs Say Staff Committed Sex Crimes Involving Children. They Weren’t Prosecuted

Declassified CIA IG reports show a pattern of abuse & a repeated decision by federal prosecutors not to hold agency personnel accountable #FOIA
buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
I have spent a decade, literally, collecting hundreds of IG reports from the CIA via #FOIA. I've filed 13 requests and sued the agency 3 times since 2012. When @a_cormier_ & I started to review these docs earlier this year we spotted a disturbing pattern
buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
Only one of the individuals cited in these documents was charged with a crime. In that case, as in the only previously known case of a CIA staffer being charged with child sexual crimes, the employee was also under investigation for mishandling classified material.
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