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BREAKING: Judicial Watch announced it filed a FOIA lawsuit against the State Department for “unmasking” & other records tied to Obama’s UN Ambassador Samantha Powers relating to the ongoing investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. (1/7)
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"Unmasking" refers generally to the practice of political appointees obtaining the identities of American citizens referenced in intelligence surveillance of foreign nationals – a process that the Obama Administration is suspected of abusing. (2/7)
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On 9/20/17, @FoxNews reported Powers unmasked over 260 persons in an attempt to uncover Trump associates. She “averaged more than one request for every working day in 2016” even seeking “information in the days leading up to Trump’s inauguration.” (3/7)
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On 10/13/17, Powers testified behind closed doors to House Intel, and House Oversight Chair @TGowdySC, who also sits on the Intel Committee, stated: “Her testimony is [the unmasking requests] may be under my name, but I did not make those requests.” (4/7)
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In May 2017, JW was told by the National Security Council that materials re: unmasking by Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice of “U.S. citizens associated with the Trump presidential campaign or transition team” were sent to the Obama Library. (5/7)
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JW Prez @TomFitton: Unmasking and then illegally leaking the names of Trump team members caught up in foreign intelligence gathering would have been an incredible, but unsurprising, abuse by the Obama Administration. (6/7)
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JW Prez @TomFitton: Was the Clinton-DNC dossier used as justification to abuse intel data to unmask Americans to help Clinton & undermine Trump? And why is Tillerson’s State Dept stonewalling JW’s investigation into this potentially illegal conduct? (7/7)
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BREAKING: Judicial Watch signed a settlement agreement with the State of California & the County of L.A. under which they’ll begin the process of removing from voter registration rolls up to 1.5 million inactive registered names that may be invalid. (1/8)
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This Judicial Watch lawsuit confirmed that Los Angeles County has on its rolls 1.5 million or more potentially ineligible voters. This means over one in every five L.A. County registrations likely belongs to a voter who has moved or is deceased. (2/8)
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This JW lawsuit related to the National Voter Registration Act also uncovered the stunning fact that neither the State of California nor Los Angeles County had been removing inactive voters from their voter registration rolls for the past 20 years. (3/8)
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NEW: JW filed an amicus curiae brief in the Supreme Court in an effort to overturn a decision of the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that upheld Utah’s law engineered by GOP legislators to compel GOP members to change how they choose candidates. (1/3)
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Until 2014, GOP members elected delegates to represent them at the nominating convention, which selected candidates for the general election ballot. But the Utah legislature enacted SB 54, which effectively compels parties to hold primary elections. (2/3)
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JW President @TomFitton: Republican power-brokers in Utah hate party conventions which they can’t control, so they passed an unconstitutional law to control the party at the expense of grassroots activists. The Supreme Court shouldn’t let this stand. (3/3)
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BREAKING: Judicial Watch announced it filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Department of Justice for records of the costs incurred by and for records of the logs maintained by the security detail for Special Counsel Robert Mueller. (1/5)
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In a related Oct. 2017 lawsuit, DOJ refused to release Mueller’s budget, but later was forced to release details from the redacted Aug. 2nd memo where Deputy AG Rosenstein gave broad authority to Mueller – three months after Mueller’s appointment. (2/5)
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JW is also pursuing multiple other FOIA lawsuits on the surveillance, unmasking, & illegal leaking that targeted President @realDonaldTrump & associates during the FBI's investigation of potential Russian involvement in 2016’s presidential election. (3/5)
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Been a pretty shitty year for #FOIA. Govt agencies continue to thwart the release of records. But I was still able to pry loose a few gems.

Here's a thread to highlight all of the news stories I published at @BuzzFeedNews in 2018 based on docs I obtained via #FOIA ICYMI 1/
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Over the past couple of days, journalists have been reminded of steps we need to take to safeguard our comms and protect our sources while working on news reports

It's also impt to note what happens after news stories are published that are based on nonpublic/classified info 1/
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(I obtained a copy of one such questionnaire and example of some media leaks via FOIA: documentcloud.org/documents/3859…) 3/
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Judicial Watch: Obama Admin Spent $9 Million Colluding With Soros Groups in Albania.
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Documents obtained by Judicial Watch from the U.S. Agency for International Development show that, under the Obama administration, the agency gave $9 million to the "Justice for All"campaign, which is overseen by left-wing billionaire George Soros' "East-West Mgmt Institute."
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UNREAL

In my/@BuzzFeedNews ongoing #FOIA lawsuit against multiple govt agencies for documents on Mikhail Lesin, the founder of RT who authorities say got drunk, fell down numerous times in his DC hotel room and died, DOJ just sent me 32 pages of this.
#FOIAFriday: Here is an update on my/@BuzzFeedNews #FOIA lawsuit against multiple government agencies for documents on Mikhail Lesin, the founder of RT who authorities claim got drunk, fell down multiple times in his Dupont Circle hotel room and died. 1/
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