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🚨🚨 BIG NEWS today in my #FOIA lawsuit against the FBI revolving around the Trump classified documents case.

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MORE #FOIA news

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What happens to your #FOIA lawsuit when the defendant agency is gutted? @jasonleopold.bsky.social has some early reporting from a case against USAID

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NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out USAID told me it can’t release documents via #FOIA due to “recent developments” Meanwhile, a memo I obtained sent to DHS FOIA officers this week directs them to “maximize transparency” when processing FOIA requests www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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Reupping this scoop from Friday

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From the FOIA Files archives Putin’s Assassination Targets Revealed in Declassified Memo ODNI released the document shedding light on the targeted killings of Vladimir Putin’s political adversaries, following 8 years of persistent public records efforts by me www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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President Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court to let him fire the head of an independent US agency that protects government whistleblowers, according to a person familiar with the filing. via @gregstohr.bsky.social @zoetillman.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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SCOOP @bloomberg.com: Top officials at the US Department of Homeland Security received a memo from Sec. Kristi Noem on Friday ordering an immediate stop to work connected to climate change and the elimination of climate-related terms across the agency. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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SCOOP: Top DHS officials received a memo on Friday ordering an immediate stop to work connected to climate change and the elimination of climate-related terms across the agency By @zhirji.bsky.social w/asst from me 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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The lack of transparency surrounding DOGE’s efforts is off the charts. The DOGE team members appeared at the agency’s Washington headquarters, and carried out work in a basement conference room where they covered its windows in paper, according to a photograph of their workspace seen by FOIA Files

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Musk claiming DOGE will be doing all of its work in public is, of course, an outright lie. @jasonleopold.bsky.social has the details on how DOGE is trying to keep its actions secret, incl attempts to evade public record requests:

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A FOIA Files SCOOP: Elon Musk’s DOGE Targets #FOIA Requests at Agency Under its Purview DOGE also wants to be notified when there’s any attempt at oversight from Congress, inspectors general, even the Government Accountability Office. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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If you haven't signed up for my free weekly newsletter, FOIA Files, please consider it! Tomorrow's edition, which lands in your inbox at 1030 am ET, is newsy and important. www.bloomberg.com/account/news...

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