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• Michigan politician recalled over FOIA allegations

  
  Open Records — Authority: 423
  Last Tuesday, voters in Hamburg, Michigan recalled Matthew Skiba, the town’s clerk partly based on allegations that he flouted Michigan’s FOIA law.
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• Declassified Docs Reveal Pentagon Ignored FBI’s Warnings on Abusive Interrogations

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  The Justice Department released more documents — or, at least, less-redacted documents — late Friday to the American Civil Liberties Union as part of the government’s obligation in a pending Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. These latest documents provide a glimpse of the early struggles between the FBI and ...
  2 days ago

• Denver Anarchist Black Cross to file Denver area FOIA Request

  
  Colorado Indymedia — Authority: 117
  Several weeks ago, we published the contents of the 2004 FBI files on the Denver Anarchist Black Cross. Now we are announcing that on November 30th, we will be filing a new set of Freedom of Information Act Requests for FBI files on behalf of ourselves and others involved in social justice movements around Denver. ...
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• ICE Sweep Yields More ‘Incidentals’ Than Criminals

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 783
  A four-day sweep conducted last November in Arizona by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents looking for immigrant fugitives and criminals resulted primarily in the arrests of immigrants who were neither criminals nor fugitives, the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona has found. The operation was ...
  4 days ago

• NRD Lawsuit over USDA GIS data Access

  
  GeoData Policy — Authority: 112
  Central Platte NRD Sues USDA Over Information Access By Robert PorePublished: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 7:56 PM CDT …The NRD is trying to gain access to the USDA’s geographic information system, or GIS, data to help it provide guidance on irrigation practices, mapping of cropland and district decisions. … ...
  5 days ago

• Florida Professor Sues EPA over FOIA Request for Asbestos Information

  
  The FOI Advocate — Authority: 133
  Miami-Dade College professor Mario Sanchez is suing the Environmental Protection Agency because it failed to release information about crushed asbestos pipe that was found on city property in 2005.  The property is slated to become the Veterans Community Park.Sanchez had filed a FOIA request seeking all EPA documents ...
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• Effective FOIA Requesting

  
  Legal Research Plus — Authority: 423
  For effective Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requesting methods, check out the Effective FOIA Requesting for Everyone: A National Security Archive Guide, which most valuably includes:FOIA IntroductionFOIA BasicsMaking the FOIA Work for YouFollow a Request Through the FOIA ProcessClassification of Government ...
  6 days ago

• Judicial Watch Obtains New CIA Documents on Terrorist Interrogations

  
  Judicial Watch - — Authority: 626
  Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained new documents from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) regarding the results of the detainee interrogation program. The documents, obtained by Judicial Watch through a Freedom of ...
  6 days ago

• This didnt take long: Mark Watts backlash

  
  Jon Slattery — Authority: 442
  As Journalist editorship candidate Mark Watts takes another swipe at the NUJ Left , it is being pointed out by union members who are not his supporters that his FOIA Centre website offers investigations into employees on behalf of employers and companies. Under the heading " Work-place investigations ", the FOIA ...
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• Judicial Watch: ‘NEA Propaganda Effort Grew Out of Obama Campaign’

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 815
  President Obama with Yosi Sergant Press release from Judicial Watch: “(Washington, DC) — Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it obtained more documents from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in response to Freedom of ...
  1 week ago

• JW Obtains More Documents Regarding NEAs Conference Call Encouraging Artists to Promote Obama Political Agenda

  
  Judicial Watch - — Authority: 626
  Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it obtained more documents from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in response to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests related to the NEAs controversial August 10 conference call ...
  1 week ago

• Darrell Issas Letter To The NY Feds Bill Dudley Demanding AIG Bailout Disclosure

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  Following on previous posts by Janet Tavakoli and Dylan Ratigan, which both reference the need to uncover how and why it is that AIG counterparties received such generous taxpayer funded bailout terms, it is critical to present the letter penned by California Congressman Darrell Issa to New York Fed President Bill ...
  1 week ago

• Guest Post: Why Keep Geithner?

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  Submitted by Dylan Ratigan A year ago it was revealed to the American people that our bankingsystem was a legalized Ponzi scheme in which bank and insurance CEOspaid themselves billions of dollars in personal compensation to lendand insure assets with money they didnt have to customers who couldntpay back the ...
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• NEWLY UNCOVERED EMAILS REVEAL: Federal Volunteer Agency Misrepresented Involvement in White House, NEA Conference Call

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 815
  Recently revealed documents obtained by Judicial Watch from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) show a few interesting facts and supports the claims made in my earlier articles– namely, Yosi Sergant, the former NEA Communications Director, did not work alone in organizing the controversial August 10th conference ...
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• FoIA: Local Councils and the Daily Mail, LB Newham respond

  
  D-Notice — Authority: 119
  On Thursday I said that I hadnt had a response to my FoIA from LB Newham and they were out of time for doing so. Apparently, Newham responded on 21 October 2009. However, I didnt receive anything nor did WhatDoTheyKnow.com... Anyway, I have now received their response (PDF): in the three months of June to ...
  1 week ago

• President Signs Law Granting Defense Authority To Suppress Torture Photos

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 550
  President Obama Thursday signed into law a Homeland Security appropriations bill that contains a provision to grant the Department of Defense (DOD) the authority to continue suppressing photos of prisoner abuse.   »  noticia original
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• Iowa Senate: Gov. Culver declined to release communications

  
  Coralville Courier — Authority: 489
  DES MOINES, IA. -- In a statement released today, Governor Culver’s office declined to release communications between his office and the Iowa Film Office. A Freedom of Information Act request had been made on October 5. “Today’s decision by the Governor to refuse citizen’s access to information regarding ...
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• President Signs Law Granting Defense Authority To Suppress Torture Photos

  
  On The Hill — Authority: 429
  President Obama Thursday signed into law a Homeland Security appropriations bill that contains a provision to grant the Department of Defense (DOD) the authority to continue suppressing photos of prisoner abuse. The amendment, which would allow the DOD to exempt photos from the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA), is ...
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• warwhores: left in charge of the right war(s)

  
  media monarchy — Authority: 435
  obama witnesses return of afghanistan war dead*video: afghanistan looks increasingly like vietnam for US*report: 40,000 more troops for afghanistan remains on the table*morale dips for american marines in afghanistan*helicopter crashes kill 14 americans in afghanistan*deadly day in afghanistan: 3 copters crash, 14 US ...
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• More Torture Docs Could Be Released Friday

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 783
  Nick Baumann at Mother Jones reminds us that the Obama administration promised earlier this month to do its best to review about 224 more documents that might be responsive to the American Civil Liberties Union’s Freedom of Information Act longstanding requests for documents relating to the torture, abuse and ...
  1 week ago

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