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Dec 2 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
A #FOIAFriday 🧵

2 yrs ago this month, I obtained via FOIA the criminal referral the IG for the Intelligence Community sent to FBI related to Trump's phone call w/Ukraine’s Pres. Volodymyr Zelensky, a conversation that sparked impeachment proceedings

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 buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
I sued CIA, ODNI and DOJ for a copy of the criminal referral on Trump. Although, ODNI turned over its copy, CIA issued me a GLOMAR and DOJ did not turn over its copy nor did it produce copy of any declination memo.

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DOJ's explanation about its search for those records raised questions and so we challenged the integrity of its search for responsive records.

Last month, DOJ finally explained how it conducted the search & provided new details abt how it handled the Trump criminal referral
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The case is now over. We won't get the declination/recommendation memo from DOJ related to the Trump criminal referral but at the very least I'm glad we can a bit more detail to the historical record

thx @mvtopic @jloevy

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(But WE DID get the actual criminal referral, which is HUGE!) ImageImageImage

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NEW: Another #FOIAFriday @business SCOOP

A previously undisclosed FTC-ordered audit of Twitter’s privacy & data controls missed failures later exposed by a whistleblower--raising q's about oversight of major tech platforms

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The 2021 external audit, obtained by Bloomberg News in response to a #FOIA request, concluded that the company had appropriate safeguards. Months later, the company’s cybersecurity chief had left and alleged that Twitter’s practices were marred by “egregious deficiencies.”
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Nov 9
NEW: In response to my/@business #FOIA lawsuits against NARA for docs related to the retrieval of Trump presidential records from Mar a Lago, the agency just released 75 pages & withheld more than 900 pgs citing ongoing investigation, et al.
archives.gov/foia/15-boxes

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There is nothing earth shattering in these newly released records. It shows NARA officials corresponding about the docs & discussing how to respond to press queries and devising a press management plan back in February related to the 15 boxes NARA retrieved.

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NARA also released this part of an email chain.

The email was turned over to us and other requesters last month

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Nov 9
Justice Department, GSA working on common standards for #FOIA tech

The FOIA community is developing new technology standards to help improve FOIA processes and standardize common services like case management tools across government. federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversig…
The identification of new technologies comes as more than a dozen agencies prepare to migrate off of FOIAonline.gov. The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to sunset FOIAonline at the end of 2023.
OIP is also now working on an interactive “FOIA wizard” that will help users navigate FOIA.gov, according to Bobak Talebian, director of OIP.
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Nov 1
NEW #FOIA SCOOP/🧵Took me 6 yrs to pry this out of NSA

A few wks before @Snowden's leaks were published, 2 NSA employees contacted NSA IG to blow the whistle on unauthorized surveillance

IG substantiated it

W/@KatrinaManson @WilliamTurton @rj_gallagher
bloomberg.com/news/articles/… ImageImageImageImage
This NSA report, which, including supplemental material, totals more than 400 pages, has never been disclosed before nor have the details related to this incident. It is a missing piece of history and is extremely noteworthy.

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On March 12, 2013, @RonWyden asked then DNI James Clapper at a congressional hearing if NSA was collecting data on Americans

“No sir,” Clapper said. “Not wittingly.”

A couple wks earlier, an NSA analyst began to raise red flags about unauthorized surveillance activities

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Oct 15
NEW: I obtained 900 pages of docs via #FOIA from USSS about the lead up to Jan 6

One USSS intel advisory says Proud Boys "has not been known to engage in civil disobedience and their demonstrations have ended without incidents or arrests”
W/@MikeDorning
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A Secret Service Protective Intelligence & Assessment division officer said in a report at 9:56 am on Jan. 6, 2021 that 10K people were waiting in line to go through magnetometers.

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The Secret Service waited until a month after the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol to prepare and disseminate intel briefs for it's officers about Proud Boys & other extremist groups.
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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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