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News Roundup 7/21/17

by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 21, 2017 | Blog

Under Trump, 16 regulations have been repealed for every new regulation added. [Link] Trump says Sessions should never have recused himself from the Russiagate investigation. Sessions responded to Trump saying he will continue to serve as Attorney General as long as...

CIA Torture Report: Where’s Our Next Heroic Whistleblower?

by Thomas L. Knapp | Jun 9, 2017 | Blog

In December of 2014, The US Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligence issued a report on the Central Intelligence Agency’s “inadequate and deeply flawed” interrogation techniques, concluding that those practices were “not effective” and that they were “far more...

News Roundup 5/5/17

by Kyle Anzalone | May 5, 2017 | Blog

The FOMC announced the FED is not raising interest rates. The FOMC believes the FED will raise interest rates later this year. [Link] The House has passed an Obamacare reform bill. The Senate will write their own healthcare reform bill. [Link] Mass spying in the US...

Feds Blame ‘Self-Styled FOIA Terrorist’ for Their Own Stonewalling

by C.J. Ciaramella | Mar 8, 2017 | Featured Articles, Politics

Journalists shouldn’t have to sue to get public information. BuzzFeed News reporter Jason Leopold is a prodigious Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requester who files hundreds of public records requests and dozens of lawsuits a year against federal agencies. In fact,...

News Roundup 2/7/17

by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 7, 2017 | Blog

The FBI will no longer accept FOIA requests by email. The FBI is setting up a web portal that FOIA requests will go through. The web portal will allow people to only submit one request per day and only request one per submission. [Link] The City of Chicago will put...

News Roundup 1/7/17

by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 7, 2017 | Blog

This article explains how Trump will have the ability to expose many secrets hidden by the Obama Administration. Trump could expose the memos that allowed Obama to do targeted drone strikes on American citizens, memos that expose the justification for the wars in...

Bovard to Trump: Open Obama’s Secret Records

by Sheldon Richman | Jan 6, 2017 | Blog, Sheldon Richman

My old friend Jim Bovard, a one-man watchdog against government wrongdoing, wisely calls on incoming president Donald Trump "to open the books and expose how the Obama administration commandeered far more power than most Americans realized." Bovard specifically refers...

News Roundup 12/29/16

by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 29, 2016 | Blog

Trump has given his Supreme Court short list. [Link] The CIA sends a letter admitting that it has not looked at a FOIA request that was sent to the CIA over six years ago. [Link] This article details how al-Qaeda has grown while the world is focused on ISIS and how...

AT&T Operates Surveillance Program on Behalf of Cops

by Dave Maass and Aaron Mackey | Nov 29, 2016 | Featured Articles, Justice

Law Enforcement’s Secret “Super Search Engine” Amasses Trillions of Phone Records for Decades EFF Fights For More Disclosure About Hemisphere Program Although the government still hides too much information about a secret telephone records surveillance program known...

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