The U.S. Secret Service has refused to comply with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for records relating to the cocaine that was recently found in the White House, citing the potential for interference in an ongoing investigation. In a letter dated July 11, the Secret Service told Bloomberg Business investigative reporter Jason Leopold that…

Two new and explosive stashes of COVID origin documents were released last week—one involving Anthony Fauci’s organization, the National Institutes of Health, and the other involving the State Department, which was run by Mike Pompeo at the time. Now we have covered previous explosive document dumps on this show, but the new ones aren’t just…

America First Legal (AFL) is suing the Department of Justice (DOJ) to obtain the records of political appointees employed at the agency, alleging that these individuals have been placed there to “advance the Biden administration’s radical agenda.” AFL sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the DOJ, seeking to obtain basic records and…

Amid the Biden administration’s efforts to increase racial equity across government agencies, the America First Legal Foundation (AFL) has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to investigate what it suspects to be a forthcoming “racist overhaul” of the nation’s organ transplant system. Filed on…

Documents the FBI recently released show that a lawyer for the agency expressed her reservations about a draft version of U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Oct. 4, 2021 memo that initiated a controversial federal effort to investigate alleged harassment at school board meetings around the country. The documents, which the America First Legal Foundation (AFL)…

Mark Middleton, one of President Bill Clinton’s top former aides who also happened to have ties with Jeffrey Epstein, apparently killed himself—despite the fact that there was no weapon found near his body. Middleton served in the White House as an aide to the president during the Clinton administration in the 1990s. Initially, the police…

Federal officials forgave $809 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans handed out during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 to more than 100 of the nation’s top law firms and another $635 million given to hundreds of elite accounting offices, according to a new analysis of government spending to be made public on Dec. 2….

Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) is demanding answers from the Department of Justice (DOJ) after the agency refused to release all documents regarding how it intended to implement a 2021 executive order on expanding voter access. Republicans have opposed this order as an unlawful exercise of federal power over elections. In March last year, President Joe…

Commentary The federal Freedom of Information Act has been contentious ever since its enactment over a half century ago, naturally pitting citizens seeking to hold their government to account against officials whose impulse, nefarious or not, is to control information. Decades later, it is by and large a case study in good intentions gone awry….

Commentary Frustrated over what they see as the Securities and Exchange Commission’s stonewalling, Senate Republicans fired off a critical letter this summer to SEC Chairman Gary Gensler. An ordinary American, they grumbled, “would be entitled to receive more records from the SEC” than the powerful Senate Banking Committee lawmakers had received to date to perform their duly…