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    Oct 3

    Our FOIAs have uncovered resumes of political appointees across the administration, many showing conflicts of interest and connections to the Trump campaign, and highlighting how Trump values loyalty over experience:

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    19 hours ago

    We filed a lawsuit against the DOJ with to compel the release of records detailing the department's role in the decision to reinstate a citizenship question on the upcoming 2020 U.S. Census. Read our statement:

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  3. 16 hours ago

    : Memo from State for former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s meetings with Mexican government officials in 2017. The memos include the issue of President Trump’s border wall proposal under the heading “If Raised"

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  4. 17 hours ago

    We're also investigating the $300 million dollar contract to reinstall power in Puerto Rico that was awarded to a tiny Montana company with connections to Secretary Zinke:

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  5. 17 hours ago

    The Trump administration rescinded a letter stating that Medicaid beneficiaries’ have the right to obtain services from any qualified provider, including Planned Parenthood. We submitted FOIAs to find out if anti-choice groups are influencing HHS policy:

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  6. 18 hours ago

    We submitted FOIAs to CDC, HHS, DHS, and FEMA to find out whether political factors influenced the official death count. We're asking for communications regarding Hurricane María’s death toll, funeral costs, the Milken Study, and ’s tweets:

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  7. 19 hours ago

    Following reports that 3,000 people died following Hurricane Maria instead of 64, tweeted that these claims were false. We submitted FOIAs to find out what the Trump administration really knew:

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  8. 21 hours ago

    NEW: American Oversight and sued DOJ in order to obtain records detailing the department’s role in the decision to reinstate a citizenship question on the upcoming 2020 U.S. Census:

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  9. 21 hours ago

    We want to know if Secretary Nielsen mislead the public in her testimony about the family separation policy:

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    Oct 12

    Remember when Scott Pruitt hired his bodyguard's business partner to do a 'bug sweep' of his office - presumably to thwart deep state spies? Turns out there were problems with this plan. We found the emails:

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  11. 23 hours ago

    We’re also demanding answers about the Trump administration’s family separation policy:

    Dianne Feinstein and Jerry Nadler want the Trump admin to turn over to them an unredacted government memo that DHS Secretary Nielsen used to justify the separation of hundreds of immigrant families at the border.
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    Oct 13

    Exclusive: We obtained confidential documents showing Jared Kushner's personal finances from 2009-2016. Despite earning millions of dollars, he appears to not have paid federal income taxes in most of those years. (1/5)

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    Oct 12

    We asked DOJ Civil Division for records of the names and titles for members serving on Jeff Sessions' Religious Liberty Task Force. They said they had no records even though a DOJ memo says otherwise. We have questions:

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    Oct 13

    Rep. Grace Meng wants Jeff Sessions to investigate Commerce Sec'y Wilbur Ross "for possible crimes." "I'm absolutely incensed that Secretary Ross lied to me when I asked him if he had spoken with anyone in the White House about adding a citizenship question" to the 2020 census.

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    Oct 12

    Senate Dems and the National Archives have reached an agreement on getting Kavanaugh records, but there are sticking points with the CIA and DOJ, per latest status report in the FOIA case

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  16. Oct 12

    : Mike Cernovich--right-wing conspiracy theorist-- email to USTR deputy chief of staff Payne Griffin, in which Cernovich tried to get Griffin to comment on a story about "never Trumpers" being favored for administration jobs:

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  17. Oct 12

    We submitted a FOIA to DHS to find out more about the administration's attempts to prepare for Hurricane Maria last September. Reports show that they did very little:

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  18. Oct 12

    We asked DOJ Civil Division for records of the names and titles for members serving on Jeff Sessions' Religious Liberty Task Force. They said they had no records even though a DOJ memo says otherwise. We have questions:

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    Oct 12

    In 2017, Mike Cernovich wrote to what he said was at least "500" federal employees soliciting anonymous comments on personnel issues. Here's what one of those emails looked like, via

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  20. Oct 12

    . continues profiting off the presidency. We want to know how much his Secret Service is spending on visits to Trump-owned properties:

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  21. Oct 12

    A new document shows that Secretary Ross lied to Congress about discussing adding a citizenship question to the 2020 Census:

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