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• In wake of ClimateGate, CEI takes legal action against government to force disclosure of public information

  
  Press Releases — Authority: 493
  In the wake of the ClimateGate scandal that erupted last week, the Competitive Enterprise Institute took legal action against several government agencies to force disclosure of public documents.  In a post to Pajamasmedia.com , CEI Senior Fellow Christopher Horner,  author of Red Hot Lies , explains: The ...
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• Do CRU emails show FOIA wrong-doing?

  
  Law is Cool — Authority: 434
  There’s been a lot of hype in the past few days about a batch of emails that were either hacked or leaked from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) . In the view of some opponents to climate change legislation, these emails depict collusion and conspiracy among leading climate change ...
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• The Case of the 1,069 Purloined Letters

  
  Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log — Authority: 110
  Around eleven this morning, Gretchen let me know that my nephew, Henry Palikowski, Junior, wished to arrange for a telephone consultation today whenever I had the free time in my schedule.  I certainly had no problem with that - because while Congress sometimes stages a circus this time of year, as it is doing at the ...
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• So much for three votes. McLin gives Young raise singlehandedly.

  
  Esrati — Authority: 133
  The rule is, it takes three votes to pass a resolution. It also, is supposed to take three votes to make a decision to settle a lawsuit, purchase real estate or all those other things the Dayton City Commission has purview over. Apparently- that’s all horse hockey. I did a FOIA (Freedom Of Information Act) request ...
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• Follow-Up on FOIA Request for Travel History

  
  The Art of Nonconformity — Authority: 487
  A while back I completed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for any governmental records related to my travel history. You can read the original post, including all the info you need to make your own request if you carry a U.S. passport, over here . As mentioned at the time, I’m not a conspiracy ...
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• Regulators Need to Keep their House in Order Too

  
  CA on Information Governance — Authority: 115
  A recent High Court challenge to the findings of an employment tribunal hearing in the UK has highlighted the need for Regulators to be as careful with their records as those they regulate. The need to keep supporting material as carefully, in particularly sensitive cases, was also raised. When the former head of a ...
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• DOL IG releases more info on Martin County coal waste impoundment, redactions continue

  
  The Pump Handle — Authority: 428
  reported by Mine Safety and Health News : Martin County: New Information  Released, But Information on Mine Seals Still  Redacted A Labor Dept.’s Inspector General report on  the whistle-blower complaints surrounding the 2000 Martin County Coal Co.  impoundment failure in Kentucky, verifies a change in ...
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• Obama’s Labor Department Ignores Freedom of Information Act

  
  Big Government — Authority: 817
  On Friday, 20 November 2009, The National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation (Foundation) decided enough was enough and filed a complaint with the U.S. District Court demanding that they compel the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to comply with the Foundation’s April 6th Freedom of information Act (FOIA) ...
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• It’s beginning to look at lot like…fraud

  
  KHdN - Kenneth Hynek (dot Net) — Authority: 434
  Okay, long-time readers of this blog (or my previous one) will know that when it comes to global warming and climate change, I’m pretty much a dyed-in-the-wool skeptic. Not of changes in the Earth’s average temperature, I should hasten to note, nor of upward changes therein. No, what I am ultimately skeptical of ...
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• So Can We Get Rid Of The Carbon Tax Now?

  
  Vancouver Secrets — Authority: 131
  BREAKING: Warmist conspiracy exposed? Hadley CRU hacked with release of hundreds of docs and emails. The Sound Of All Hell About To Break Loose . The global warming scandal of the century Leaked FOIA files 62 mb of gold Get all the evidence here in a nicely zipped 61 meg file.. while supplies last. ...
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• ACLU Urges Gates to Release Photos of Prisoner Abuse, Despite New Exemption Under FOIA

  
  The FOI Advocate — Authority: 131
  The ACLU is urging Department of Defense Secretary Robert Gates not to exercise the authority granted him under a Homeland Security appropriations bill signed by President Obama to continue suppressing photos of prisoner abuse. The amendment allows the DOD to exempt photos from the Freedom of Information Act. Click ...
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• JW Obtains Documents on Obama FCC "Diversity Czar" Mark Lloyds Official Mission, Duties and Responsibilities

  
  Judicial Watch - — Authority: 641
  Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regarding President Obamas "Diversity Czar" Mark Lloyds official mission and responsibilities. According to the documents ...
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• econocrash: another day, another dollar

  
  media monarchy — Authority: 434
  US national debt now tops $12 trillionfrom afp: The US public debt topped 12 trillion dollars for the first time in history, Treasury officials disclosed Tuesday, moving past a key barrier that raised hackles in Congress. Treasury data showed Mondays outstanding debt at 12.031 trillion dollars, up from 11.999 trillion ...
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• JW Files Two New FOIA Lawsuits against Treasury and Federal Reserve for Documents on Taxpayer Bailouts

  
  Judicial Watch - — Authority: 641
  Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has filed two separate Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits against the Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve in its continuing efforts to bring transparency to the federal ...
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• Arguments Heard in Reverse-FOIA Action

  
  The FOIA blog — Authority: 124
  The U.S. Court of Appeals heard arguments in a reverse-FOIA case on Monday that involved documents submitted to the government by United Technologies.  The blog of the Legal Times has this on the case . For those of you who dont know what a reverse-FOIA is, it is when a submitter of records who has asked the ...
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• `McCain campaign micromanaged so much, that I couldn’t be myself’: Palin

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  New York, Nov.17 (ANI): Former Alaska Governor and 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has said that she was so micromanaged by the McCain campaign that she couldn’t be herself. Appearing on the Oprah Winfrey show yesterday, Palin said: “They were just doing what the staff was hired to do, ...
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• Govt wants $522K to comply with FOIA request

  
  Corrente — Authority: 627
  Wired : The Treasury Department wants more than $500,000 to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request, a fee an attorney on the case suggested Tuesday might be one of the largest bills of its kind. “I have not seen one that has been larger,” said Noah Wood, a Missouri attorney suing the government to ...
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• Gates Invokes New Authority to Block Release of Detainee Abuse Photos

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 683
  By GottaLaff ( via ) My dear friend Jason Leopold has an exclusive (which has since made its way into the media) that is making my blood boil: Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has blocked the release of photographs depicting US soldiers abusing detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, using authority just granted ...
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• Chicagos Mayor Daley Sued for Olympic Bid Information

  
  The FOI Advocate — Authority: 131
  Non-profit Judicial Watch is suing Chicagos Mayor Daley and his office for failing to respond to a FOIA request for access to public records regarding Chicagos bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. The request seeks all correspondence between the Mayors Office and President Obama, Michelle Obama, and White House staff ...
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• The Power of The Department of Justices Office of Legal Counsel

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 765
  It is easy to forget that the United States Government and its citizens have distinctly different relationships with the law.  While citizens and corporations look at statutes to see what they are prohibited from doing, governments must look to statutes to see what they are specifically authorized to do .  In ...
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