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Aug 11 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Funny story. In March, I filed a #FOIA request w/Secret Service for docs abt Trump pres. records stored at Mar a Lago

On July 1, I sued Secret Service (& other agencies)

A day after FBI searched Mar a Lago, Secret Service responded to my request

*No responsive docs LOL

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BUT WAIT! Secret Service didn't conduct a complete search and claimed that 3 parts of my request fell under the purview of NARA.

So I reached out. My query was escalated...

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Secret Service must have quickly drafted that response and second letter because they reached out a short time later and sent me a third letter...

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Anyway, @jloevy & @mvtopic are going to battle this out in litigation.

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Aug 12
The type of classified national security information protected under EO 13526 is wide-ranging: military plans, weapons systems, or operations; foreign government information; intelligence activities (including covert action), intelligence sources or methods, or cryptology;

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foreign relations or foreign activities of the United States, including confidential sources; scientific technological, or economic matters relating to the national security; U.S. Government programs for safeguarding nuclear materials or facilities;

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Aug 5
NEW: 8 friggin years ago, I filed a #FOIA request w/NSA for docs used at a presentation the agency gave at Purdue University where NSA was trying to shore up its image after the Snowden leaks

NSA *just* responded & turned over a slide deck. Let's take a look at some

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NSA personnel are friendly and cool and play guitar

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NSA is a good neighbor

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Jul 30
I got major sections of the Mueller report related to Stone unredacted after a three year epic legal battle while I was working at @BuzzFeedNews (thx @mvtopic). Once again, here are some before & after pics of the redactions and & unredacted

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Jun 30
After 5.5 years, a bunch of investigative projects, 2 of which were Pulitzer finalists, and successfully prying loose tens of thousands of docs via #FOIA from govt agencies, I'm taking a buyout and leaving @BuzzFeedNews. Tomorrow is my last day.

It was a hell of a run.
This has been the most rewarding reporting job I ever had. In addition to taking on big investigative projects, I was given the opportunity to build a groundbreaking FOIA operation that would make history, literally, and collaborate with every desk in our newsroom.
I'm so grateful to @SchoofsFeed for hiring me & working w/me, along w/amazing attys Chris Hickman, @nabihasyed @MatthewSchafer, to execute my vision & my other editors past & present @arielkaminer @HeidilBlake @semaforben @GeorgeWPapajohn @MartinSgottlieb for supporting my work
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Jun 29
Anyone can duplicate another reporter's FOIA request & ask for the same docs a reporter requested. But in the FOIA community, as a matter of decency & respect, we usually reach out to the reporter who made the request to inquire about it.
This is definitely a subtweet btw
It's my fault for tweeting a few of these images out last month that I had been waiting 5 yrs for related to a project I have been working on. I didn't expect another reporter would then duplicate my request over the past month to get ahead of me. Sleazy.
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Jun 6
NEW: DHS #FOIA is moving to a new system which will allow us to process records "faster"

dhs.gov/change-underwa…
which would allow *them*
This is the roll out schedule for the new FOIA system across DHS
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