Nick Schwellenbach

@schwellenbach

Director of Investigations . Tips: nick@pogo.org Tell Me What to . Consider snail mailing me using a public USPS box.

Washington, DC, USA
Joined July 2008

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jan 2

    Quick pic on my bike ride in. That’s the White House in the background. The National Park can’t empty trash cans next to the Washington Monument.

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  2. 15 hours ago

    This issue isn't unique to the U.S. China's "top central bank official said the industry was plagued by collusion between regulators and the regulated, or 'an alliance between cats and rats'" via

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    House Democrats kicked off the new Congress with an ambitious ethics reform bill, the Act/, which includes many reforms POGO has been advocating in favor of for years. Our breaks it down:

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    19 hours ago
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  5. Retweeted
    21 hours ago

    Declaring a national emergency to build the wall would be an abuse of emergency powers. But Congress left the door wide open to this abuse by giving the president complete discretion to declare a national emergency. See my article in :

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    21 hours ago

    One of the big benefits of 's new website is UPDATED STATE OPEN GOVERNMENT GUIDES: A huge thanks to all the * many * attorneys who worked on updating these!

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    High-level political appointees (and Mike Pence) are getting 10% raises while 800,000 regular federal employees--whose pay was already frozen--are furloughed. Thanks to , , and for weighing in.

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  8. 21 hours ago

    "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." - Emma Goldman

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  9. 21 hours ago

    Who’s got Nasty1 ?

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  10. 21 hours ago

    When a trash company starts using your photo, you know you’ve made the Big Time

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  11. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    I really do not understand this Beltway thing of acting like there's some big difference between a border "fence" and a border "wall"—the distinction is not really that important. Either way, it's an atrocity that will ruin parks and private land in TX.

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    23 hours ago

    I was rejected, too. "I would like to wish you all the best in your journalism career," the note read. It worked out!

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    23 hours ago

    Inside H.R. 1, the For the People Act, which is the first bill introduced by and House Democrats:

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  14. Jan 4

    “I’m very sympathetic to agencies dealing with an influx of FOIA requests, but it doesn’t change their obligations under the law to comply with FOIA and provide records to requestors” - thanks to for the coverage...

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  15. Jan 4

    Hey that's me! doesn’t explicitly give agencies the right to deny requests simply because they call for a “vast quantity of material,” as laid out in the new proposal, said Nick Schwellenbach, 's director of investigations

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  16. Jan 4

    .'s tells : The problem with those guidelines & the use of the agents is the “guidance went way beyond the intent of the [Hatch] Act, and this case may be a good example of why it isn’t workable"

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  17. Jan 4

    “Classification decisions should be based on what information must be kept secret to keep our troops safe, but not as a way to obscure the public debate about our current wars,” /'s told .

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  18. Jan 4

    So many people don’t believe me when I tell them this stat: “About 79 percent of federal employees work outside the Washington area”

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  19. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    Justice Dept. admits error but won’t correct report linking terrorism to immigration

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    Jan 4

    DoD weapons chief Lord says she'll push for less use of widely abused ``For Official Use Only'' label the services are stamping on annual weapons reports; Less Secrecy in Pentagon Reports Promised by Chief Weapons Buyer via

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    Jan 2

    Earlier today, reported on a 1976 exposé that led to an FBI investigation of the Voice for espionage. Behold the entire supplement from the February 16, 1976 issue :

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