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Sep 9 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
NEW via my #FOIA: Federal law enforcement officers scoured social media to identify threats to FBI buildings and agents and issued internal warnings about possibly armed protests in the days after the FBI searched former President Trump’s Florida estate

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Docs

documentcloud.org/documents/2227…
These 22 pages of documents underscore the ripple effect of the FBI’s search on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and the fears by federal law enforcement of the potential for political violence in its aftermath.
On Aug. 10, Richard Cline, FPS’s principal deputy director, sent an email to Randolph “Tex” Alles, a top DHS official, along with intel “reporting a spike in expressed social media threats against the FBI and to a lesser extent, other government and law enforcement agencies.”
Earlier that day, an FPS intelligence officer flagged a comment left on the far-right website The Gateway Pundit that said Image
Senior officials at FPS and DHS raised as a main concern the possibility that Trump supporters who were planning to stage a protest in front of FBI headquarters on Aug. 14 would show up armed. Image

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Sep 6
Chipping away at government secrecy one sentence at a time, even if it takes 7 years. A #FOIA 🧵

In April 2015, I filed a #FOIA request w/CIA & then sued the agency for all docs footnoted in the Senate Intel Committee's report on the CIA torture program

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CIA turned over 1000s of pages to me. But there were many CIA withheld related to Abu Zubaydah, the agency's 1st high value detainee and the guinea pig for the post 9/11 program

Last Dec, CIA finally relented & turned over some of those docs to me

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 documentcloud.org/documents/2227…
Having waited nearly 7 years for these records I was outraged that CIA continued to withhold a bunch of records I requested even though much about Abu Zubaydah's torture had been disclosed publicly.

So I appealed (ALWAYS APPEAL)

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Aug 23
John Solomon is quoting a letter acting Archivist Debra Wall sent Trump's atty stating presidential records retrieved earlier this year from MAL included "Special Access Program materials," which are highly classified & sometimes refer to black projects
justthenews.com/politics-polic…
Also John Solomon refers to Trump as "the man Joe Biden beat in the 2020 election"
This is quite a damning letter.

justthenews.com/government/cou…
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Aug 20
NEW: In her spare time, historian Colleen Shogan writes political mysteries such as one titled "Larceny at the Library." On Aug 3, Biden tapped her to be 1sr woman to head NARA. 5 days later FBI searched MAL

Shogan now faces a hostile path to confirmation
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The previous Archivist of the US, David Ferriero, retired in late April. A confirmation hearing for Shogan hasn’t been scheduled yet.

NARA sparked the DOJ probe that led to the the FBI search of MAL when staffers found classified docs in presidential records retrieved this year
The White House said im a written statement to Bloomberg News Shogan “is well-qualified to be the next Archivist of the United States and we hope that the Senate will quickly take up her nomination and confirm her.”
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Aug 14
For a good chunk of Trump's presidency, there was a flurry of correspondence between the White House & NARA about the preservation of presidential records & adherence to the PRA & WH counsel circulated memos about following the law

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In March 2017, Sens McCaskill & Carper wrote to Archivist David Ferriero asking whether NARA was aware of any efforts to skirt the PRA. Ferriero responded that his staff provided a briefing to Trump WH staffers on the PRA.

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archives.gov/files/press/pr…
In October 2017, Stefan Passantino circulated a PRA compliance reminder around the WH and he noted: "Failure to abide by these requirements may lead to administrative penalties. The willful destruction or concealment of federal records is a federal crime."

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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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vulnerabilities or capabilities of systems, installations, infrastructures, projects, or plans or protection services relating to the national security; or development, production, or use of weapons of mass destruction.

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Aug 11
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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