Release the OLC opinion that’s being used to prop up this sham. FPF filed a FOIA request for it yesterday. My inbox is ready.

Aldrich Ames, CIA officer convicted of spying for Russia, dies at age 84 www.cbsnews.com/news/aldrich...

No, it fucking lied. At least the NYT outright called the info on the site false in the title.

The Archive's Rachel Santarsiero has a new piece published today in the @thebulletin.org on how the EPA has been erasing climate data from its website. thebulletin.org/2026/01/epas...

Want to track homeland security contracting? We've expanded our dataset of companies that sell tech to DHS and published a step-by-step guide to leveraging government procurement databases to investigate border and immigration enforcement. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

One of the most important projects I worked on at @nsarchive.bsky.social was the January 6 Sourcebook. It includes a 3-part series of key documents on the riot, as well as a chronology:

I FOIAd the Secret Service for copies of all records related to the White House ballroom project and they sent me a link to the sam.gov website and then closed the request without offering me any appeal rights. Most transparent administration in history.

would love to know how often White House Counsel is being consulted for FOIA requests.

it is a very rage against the machine day

@freedom.press and @404media.co got access to the data-sharing agreement giving ICE access to Medicaid patients’ data through a FOIA lawsuit. Today, ICE will be allowed to continue using Medicaid data in deportation cases. Read the agreement here:

many thanks to Matthew Cate for representing us! www.matthewcatelaw.com

NEW: Starting today, ICE can continue using Medicaid data in deportation cases. Last year, 404 Media and @freedom.press sued DHS for refusing to share a copy of the agreement, which gives the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients to ICE. Now, the agreement has been released:

The FBI just refused to confirm or deny the existence of its Tom Homan bribery video in response to my FOIA request for it. Honestly, I would have preferred them to tell me that yes they have it, but it would cost 50K to process the FOIA.

Amazingly, ICE just told me it couldn't figure out how to conduct a search for records about how it trained agents on how to use the facial recognition app Mobile Fortify.

ICE using facial recognition as a "definitive ID" is dangerous, and completely unprecedented as a policy for how the tech is deployed. Virtually every police department that uses facial recognition says matches should not be treated as the sole basis for arrest: www.techpolicy.press/ices-reckles...

Today @freedom.press filed FOIA requests for records on the President’s legal authority to launch a strike on Venezuela. We’re seeking answers, and expedited processing, from DOJ (OLC), DOD, State, FBI, CIA, NSA, and NGA. Wars shouldn't be illegal, and they shouldn't be justified in secret.

This way, DHS can more efficiently tell requesters it can't manage to find a single, solitary record.

What about if this is had been/when it will be Iran?

What if they had learned the plan was to assassinate him? Still mum?

How much did it cost? The planning started months ago, possibly preceding or during the shutdown. How much were we paying for this while we weren’t paying for food stamps?

You can’t report illegal acts because you don’t want to compromise them being carried out is an interesting take, if true

Surely this is the year DEA will come through and give me a straight answer on one of my FOIA requests

Whoopsie

Stephen Miller has not been jailed for those lies. But two different judges ruled that Trump was lying abt Kilmar Abgrego. And that’s just for starters.

Good thing Tulsi Gabbard gutted the National Intelligence Council after this! This situation is made immeasurably more dangerous by a DNI (among others) surrounded by a shrinking number of sycophants.

This has been gearing up for Trump’s entire first year, at least back to when a FOIA release to @freedom.press showed the administration was unabashedly lying when it invoked the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans to El Salvador. And the administration has yet to face a single consequence.

Yesterday: A Diminished Congress Weighs Whether to Reassert Its Power

Let’s destabilize a region and likely prompt more migration while simultaneously demonizing immigrants from that part of the world and arbitrarily send them to torture prisons.

David Ellison shakes his head and whispers, if Maduro had donated to Trump’s presidential library foundation.

Well it sounds like Marco Rubio has a 5th job on his hands

maybe congress shouldn't have given the pentagon even more money that it asked for in its latest budget.

Dems’ letter is going to be a scorcher! ☄️

Surely this is a one time thing, thought nobody.

The horrendous memes the administration will surely start posting about this are going to make for some ghoulish exhibits in a future war crimes trial.

"Trump will pay for the materials 'at his own expense,' according to a White House official who declined to say what he bought or how much he spent." Sure, Jan.

Tonight on CBS, Bari Weiss won’t run anything about Venezuelan regime change until she can get Pam Bondi’s side of the story.

Starting to think the fiction manuscript I just started working on about the CIA-backed assassination of the President of Venezuela might be a little dated by the time I ever finish it.

How in the fuck is an American court going to legitimize this by hearing this case?

The quotes are a good sign

So the FBI executed the warrant and this is being framed as a law enforcement action and not a war.

America 250: still addicted to regime change and illegal wars.

Expect someone in the administration may have dusted off this 1989 OLC opinion. www.justice.gov/olc/opinion/...

Trump went to war and kidnapped a foreign leader all without Congress and a decent fucking reason. If Congress can’t muster the energy to impeach him for this, it won’t matter who wins the midterms - he will know he can do whatever he wants on any stage, with no consequences.

The Malheur National Wildlife Refuge standoff began 10 years ago today. In April of 2025, The Tribune interviewed Ammon Bundy, now living in southern Utah as a fugitive — though law enforcement has shown little interest in arresting him.

In theory you could file a FOIA request and lawsuit for all Goddard holdings and they’d have to keep them while the suit got sorted.

NASA library records are federal records and must be handled according to their records schedule. They can’t just be tossed if they aren’t scheduled for it. Question is: who’s going to make sure the rules are being followed? Noted space buff and archivist Marco Rubio?

In 2026 the state of media should be examined more explicitly in connection with the dismantling of the education department and changes to federal student loans. Combined, both are going to make it even more difficult for us in 2050 for us to 1) agree on basic facts and 2) act collectively.

As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:

The bonanza for federal contractors comes as the Trump administration’s focus on deportations has led to a massive increase in ICE’s budget.

Trump Filed a FOIA Request. We FOIAed His FOIA. When the then-former president was under investigation for unlawfully retaining classified docs, he filed a FOIA request with NARA about his case. It wasn’t the first time Trump wielded the public records tool www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...