Kash Patel emails (1.1 GB) The first tranche of emails from the mailbox of Kash Patel, the director of the FBI, which was hacked by Handala, a hacking group that is believed to have ties to Iranian intelligence. ddosecrets.org/article/kash... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets

DHS forgot to apply the redactions in this doc released to @weareoversight.bsky.social via #FOIA BUT this is also an example of how DHS intended to use one of FOIA's most abused exemptions, b5, to hide embarrassing info in violation of the law americanoversight.org/featureddocu...

NEW FOIA Files newsletter: Docs Reveal Details About ICE Surge in Minneapolis Police logs say an ICE agent was “trapped in his car” and pelted with snowballs. Police also logged numerous calls about ICE agents patrolling schools and allegedly “harassing children” www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

A FOIA Files flashback: Dozens of pages of emails I obtained via #FOIA reveal how FCC Chairman Brendan Carr was cleared by ethics officials to write a chapter in the 922-page Project 2025 manifesto when he was a commissioner www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Greatest hits from my yearslong #FOIA pursuit of documents from Robert Mueller's Trump/Russia investigation, including my epic win (thx @mvtopic.bsky.social) to unredact the Mueller report.

P3 Global Intel is now facing a potential Class Action after BlueLeaks 2.0 😹 www.msdlegal.com/blog/2026/03...

BlueLeaks 2.0 (91.53 GB) BlueLeaks 2.0 contains millions of submissions and tips about alleged crimes and terrorist acts. The data comes from P3, which is used by intelligence, law enforcement, and schools. ddosecrets.org/article/blue... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets

NEW/DEEP DIVE by @davidvoreacos.bsky.social Prosecutor Pushed Her Bosses for Epstein’s Arrest Multiple Times Marie Villafana was ready to charge Jeffrey Epstein with 60 counts of sex trafficking and other crimes in 2007. Her bosses’ reaction: What’s the rush? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Recent reporting revealed that Epstein was one of several targets of a big drug trafficking investigation a decade ago. DEA has key info. Based on what we know, Epstein was likely pumping his victims, young women and girls, with incapacitating drugs to facilitate abuse.

HUGE: Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche — Trump's former personal lawyer who was also responsible for Ghislaine Maxwell's transfer to a cushy club fed — has intervened to block the DEA from providing details of a mysterious Epstein investigation to my Finance Committee team.

SCOOP from @anthonycormier.bsky.social & team As Lutnick Sold Cantor to His Children, Tether Gave Them a Loan Reps for Tether and Lutnick's family declined to reveal the amount. An ethics expert said the loan may be ‘another favor his family owes Tether.’ 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Happy #SunshineWeek #FOIA

NEW: Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is blocking the DEA from releasing an unredacted document from the Epstein files about an investigation involving drug trafficking & money laundering, according to a letter @wyden.senate.gov sent to Blanche Tuesday www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A FOIA Files flashback from last April: Trump’s Special Envoy Richard Grenell Was Subject of Leak Probe In 2020 Based on docs I obtained from the State Department via #FOIA www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out! Happy forthcoming #SunshineWeek, an annual celebration (and a time to vociferously complain) about transparency (or lack thereof) and open govt (debatable). The occasion also marks the second anniversary of my newsletter! www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

NEW: Internal UK government email released today further confirms that Ambassador to US Peter Mandelson was fired after my @bloomberg.com colleagues & I published a cache of previously undisclosed emails last Sept that revealed new details about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

ICE Contracts (17 MB) Details on ICE contracts with over 6,000 different entities. Some of the notable firms include Anduril, HBGary, L3Harris, Microsoft, Oracle, Palantir and Raytheon. ddosecrets.org/article/ice-... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.com/ddosecrets

What really sucks is that I've sad time and again that I believe independent and legacy media can co-exist and it doesn't have to be adversarial—as long as there's mutual respect. In this case, there was not.

I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)

SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors. My report:

Another document in the Epstein files shows that in September 2016, the FBI alerted its legal attaché in Paris that Epstein planned to travel there, underscoring how federal authorities continued to track his movements after his 2008 guilty plea in Florida.

With every new development in this story I am even more gobsmacked that Epstein and his co-conspirators escaped accountability over and over and over again. There's more to come from my investigation. Stay tuned.

It's not all bad though. Fugazi has officially released the Steve Albini sessions for In On The Killtaker fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...

NSA takes 12 years to send @jasonleopold.bsky.social an UNCLASSIFIED report on how the agency is (or, more accurately, isn't) addressing overclassification. 😬 The report doesn't quantify how much is overclassified, but a former director once quipped that a merry christmas email was top secret.

Happy #FOIA Friday? Not really

NEW from me: Ketamine, Prostitution and Money: Here Are The Details of a Secret DEA Probe of Jeffrey Epstein 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

CHICAGO FOIA filers! I'm going to be in the city for FOIA Fest on March 21 doing a live taping of my podcast, Disclosure, with my co-host and FOIA attorney, @mvtopic.bsky.social. Do you have Q's about local and federal public records? Send em over in the comments! headlineclub.org/2026/02/13/f...

NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out! The FBI just turned over nearly 100 pages of emails to me that provides additional context and color related to the FBI's resistance to searching Trump's Mar-a-Lago for classified & other docs he took after he left office in 2021 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Some cool #FOIA Friday news! The American Society of Magazine Editors named my newsletter, FOIA Files, as a finalist for this year's National Magazine Awards!! Sign up for a FREE subscription to FOIA Files @bloomberg.com. New installment dropping in 30 minutes! www.bloomberg.com/account/news...

Congrats to @jasonleopold.bsky.social for being the 2026 @brechnerfoi.bsky.social Freedom of Information Award! brechner.org/about/awards...

@jasonleopold.bsky.social of @bloomberg.com wins FOI award: talkingbiznews.com/media-news/b...

You’ll be seeing a lot about this memo today. I published it first (and got the story right) b/c I’ve been covering this case in depth at Law Dork — even filing a motion last week to intervene and improve public access. I knew this was an important case; my work shows it. Subscribe: www.lawdork.com

Hey FBI I have a question about one of my FOIA requests

NEW: Kathy Ruemmler shared nonpublic details with Jeffrey Epstein about the White House probe into a 2012 prostitution scandal that engulfed the Secret Service during her tenure as White House counsel, emails show www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Epstein's advice to Amir Taaki and the Bitcoin crew: 'Review the laws on money laundering, gambling, PATRIOT Act, and conspiracy rules.' www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Gift Link / Free to Read Newsletter FOIA Files The FBI’s Reasons for Redacting the Epstein Files A document from the Epstein files explains the FBI’s justifications for redactions in the massive trove. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... via @bloomberg.com @jasonleopold.bsky.social

NEW in my newsletter FOIA Files: A document I found in the Epstein files explains the FBI’s justifications for redactions in the massive trove while bureau personnel were reviewing the documents between February and May 2025 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

NEW: One of Dubai’s Most Powerful Executives Discussed Sex, Business With Epstein Among an elite network that corresponded with Epstein, few kept in communication with him as long as Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem. Here’s what the emails reveal 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

NEW: One of Dubai’s Most Powerful Executives Discussed Sex, Business With Epstein Among an elite network that corresponded with Epstein, few kept in communication with him as long as Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem. Here’s what the emails reveal 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

EPSTEIN Files: As FBI agents and other personnel were reviewing the files last year, Kash Patel asked them to find out if Epstein was ever an FBI confidential human source. Response: "Per searches conducted by NYO and the DNI all searches for 'Jeffrey E. Epstein were negative."

NEW: The Epstein files released last week includes hundreds of pages of docs that lays bare the behind-the-scenes chaos at the FBI early last year over the review of the files & questions on what should be redacted related to victims and public figures 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Gift Link /Free to Read Newsletter FOIA Files Epstein Files Review Was Totally Chaotic Documents from the cache of files on Jeffrey Epstein released last week shed light on how the US govt reviewed and redacted them. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... via @bloomberg.com @jasonleopold.bsky.social

What’s in the “Epstein Files,” and what isn’t, with the great @jasonleopold.bsky.social:

When @jasonleopold.bsky.social told me the Justice Department inexplicably redacted the “J.P.” from “J.P. Morgan” in a J.P. Morgan research note, I didn’t believe him. But here it is:

Newsletter FOIA Files How Lost 1930s-Era Paintings Owned By US Government Were Recovered The General Services Administration has a program to find misplaced or stolen New Deal-era artwork owned by the US government. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... via @bloomberg.com @jasonleopold.bsky.social

NEW: The House Oversight Committee just formally issued a subpoena to Darren Indyke (who filed the #FOIA request) Epstein's personal atty & co-executor of his estate as well as subpoenas to billionaire Les Wexner and Epstein's accountant Richard Kahn, the other co-executor of his Epstein's estate.

FOIA Files Epstein Filed a FOIA Request Sought docs on “how, why, or when Epstein was selected to be a subject of any such monitoring, surveillance, observation, questioning, interrogation, investigation.” www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... via @bloomberg.com @jasonleopold.bsky.social

NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out! Jeffrey Epstein Filed a #FOIA Request in 2014 The request to CBP sought docs on "how, why, or when Epstein was selected to be a subject of monitoring, surveillance, observation, questioning, interrogation, investigation" www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Happy #FOIAing Trump's first-term presidential records day to those who celebrate!