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Oct 3 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: NARA's top atty says in May 2021 email released to @business & other news orgs via #FOIA the correspondence between Trump & Kim Jong-un was not turned over to NARA and was placed in a binder for Trump in January 2021.

Story: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Stern said NARA learned 2 dozen boxes of original presidential records were kept in the WH residence during Trump’s last year in office “and have not been transferred to NARA, despite a determination by Pat Cipollone in the final days of the dministration that they need to be.”
NARA has identified more than 2K pages of docs responsive to my #FOIA requests and has withheld nearly all citing these FOIA exemptions.
I sued NARA in July-- a month before the FBI search of Mar a Lago -- for a wide range of records related to the discovery earlier this year that Trump had stored presidential records at his residence.

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Oct 5
BIG #FOIA SCOOP: Among the excuses Trump offered after FBI found classified docs at MAL, is GSA packed the boxes

But these docs-including PICS of pallets Trump's team packed, stacked & shrink wrapped-I obtained from GSA tells another story.

w/@jackgillum bloomberg.com/news/articles/… ImageImageImageImage
What we have here in this incrediby detailed 165 page cache of emails, contracts, invoices, is the entire backstory from Jan through Sept 2021 of how GSA assisted the outgoing Trump transition team with SHIPPING pallets of boxes to MAL and a storage facility. ImageImageImage
Trump's outgoing transition got $2.6M -$2M & change for Trump and $520K for Pence -- to set up office space in Arlington and MAL and purchase supplies, pay staff, pay for shipping, packing etc ImageImage
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Oct 4
🧵DOJ has attacked me personally and my #FOIA in court docs, saying I have wasted taxpayer $$, I'm not really practicing journalism, I'm a "FOIA terrorist" (☑️), and plaintiffs like me account for 25% of the entire civil docket in US District Court in DC

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While I could wear this as a badge of honor, I am outraged by what DOJ attys said about me and my work in court docs.

BACKGROUND: This is a case related to dozens of requests for records I filed with DOJ when I was at BuzzFeed for docs about the Jan 6th insurrection.

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At the time I filed these requests (and then sued) with numerous DOJ components, including the Executive Office of Immigration Review, which is the division that made these disparaging remarks, I heard prosecutors were going to leave en masse & others were going to back Trump

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Oct 1
Background on this transcript of Obama's off the record discussion w/reporters I obtained via #FOIA

This arguably would be considered a presidential record. But b/c it was forwarded via email to DOJ by Obama's press office in 2017 it was stored in DOJ record keeping system

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And therefore became subject to FOIA when it turned up during a search DOJ conducted for records I requested in 2017 on Rex Tillerson because Tillerson is mentioned once in the transcript.

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Normally, any eop.gov emails that are requested from exec branch agenciew go through a review with the WH to determine what can be released. It's unclear who reviewed what here and when. DOJ has been sitting on this request of mine for 5.5 years.

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Sep 30
#FOIAFriday SCOOP: DOJ released a doc to me in response to a 5 year old #FOIA request. It's a doc I didn't specifically ask for. It's a transcript of an off the record discussion Obama had with reporters about Trump, et al, 3 days before he left office

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 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Obama told reporters he was not too worried abt 4 yrs of Trump

“Take on some water, but we can kind of bail fast enough to be okay. 8 years would be a problem. I would be concerned about a sustained period in which some of these norms have broken down and started to corrode”
Obama told reporters during this January 17, 2017 discussion that they should pay particularly close attn to DOJ Image
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Sep 29
NEW: Remember when Trump took a trip to Japan back in 2019 and reports surfaced that the WH requested the move the USS John McCain out of view so it wouldn't upset Trump?

Well, I #FOIA'd the military for docs about this & 3 yrs later they just arrived

"This just makes me sad"
The White House Military Office passed along a request to keep the USS John McCain out of sight when Trump visited Japan.
How the sequence of events unfolded. An email describing how the directives to keep the USS John McCain out of sight during Trump's 2019 visit to Japan were passed to US Indo-Pacific Command and the Navy
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Sep 9
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.
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