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Dirty Tricks? Don’t Leap to Conclusions
Roadkill Refugee | September 18th 2008 by Roadkill Refugee
It’s well established that the traditional media often can have a Pavlovian response to Drudge Report headlines and allow it to operate as their outsourced assignment desk. This morning Drudge has a screaming headline implying that Governor read more
Updated USCIS Genealogy URL
Louisiana Genealogy Blogs | August 19th 2008 by louisianagenealogyblogs
See: Monday, May 19, 2008Historical Immigration Law and a New Genealogy program at USCISGenie Angels has posted information about a new genealogy program at USCIS, United States citizenship and Immigration Services. Genealogy research has usually be read more
OPERATION NORTHWOODS: SOME (JUST SOME) TELLTALE SIGNS OF FALSE-FL…
Real Liberal Christian Church - Christian Commons | August 18th 2008 by Tom Usher
It's extremely important to realize that the U.S. government is not trustworthy on matters of either foreign or domestic policy or practices. Operation Northwoods is gaining infamy. It is even posted in Wikipedia. Don't expect a full treatment of the read more
ANTHRAX ATTACK: CASE CLOSED, CASE OPEN, BIGGEST PICTURE, FALSE FL…
Real Liberal Christian Church - Christian Commons | August 5th 2008 by Tom Usher
Title: "Across from Ground Zero." The Attacks About a week after 9/11, letters started showing up through the U.S. Postal Service addressed to well known, so-called liberal-leaning people in federal government and large media corporations. Peo read more
Performing Poodles Everywhere (World without Watchdogs)
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 25th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | Discussing the torture memoranda which the ACLU have procured (discussed here), Glenn Greenwald discusses the culture of secrecy that has evolved in the executive branch---and how the press, the opposition party (the Dems, alas), and the read more
'A Landmark Day for Torture-Disclosure'
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 24th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | The ACLU has released some crucial memoranda which reveal the torturous path by which the Bush Administration's Department of 'Justice' taught the CIA to rationalize its way to a distinction between 'enhanced interrogation' and plain old read more
MUFON Report on Stephenville, Texas: What You Need to Know
Area51.Org: Paranormal and Conspiracy Reports | July 19th 2008 by Sky Londa
Save yourself some time and trouble by reading this post before you download the 77-page MUFON report about the January 8, 2008 incident occurring between 6:30 and 9 p.m. in the Dublin-Stephenville area of north Texas. Witnesses claimed to have seen read more
AARP Files Suit to Release Medicare Claims Data
Insurance Consumer Advisor | July 15th 2008 by L. A. Sosnowski
AARP and Consumers’ Checkbook have filed freedom of information act requests to get Medicare claims information released to the public. Their purpose is to better serve the public and provide a better understanding of the operations of this governm read more
Freedom of Information Act, Bushed
The SideTrack | July 14th 2008 by The SideTrack
E & P: CHICAGO (July 06, 2008) -- To open-government advocates, President George W. Bush's 2006 presidential order that federal agencies speed up their response to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests was a kind of unexpected miracle coming fro read more
THE RETURN OF THE GUINEA PIG
HEALTHYCITIZENS.COM'S BLOG | June 30th 2008 by www.healthycitizens.blogspot.com
In my Feb 7, 2008 posting, I wrote: "I am presently in a very bad situation which I will write about in future posts. It's deja vu all over again." It was not my intention for the future to be 4 months, Like many victims, I was just wishing my proble read more
Hoo Has Good Ideas, Disney Movie Recommendations?
Relatively Journalizing | June 22nd 2008 by Joshua DeLung
What a crappy day. Rain all morning, dreary all day, and as I'm writing this, there's a hailstorm happening. Today was definitely not good for my yearning to shoot some hoops.On the other hand, I suppose today was good for me getting some work done. read more
Historic Boundaries and Senile Stimuli
Relatively Journalizing | June 19th 2008 by Joshua DeLung
Today involved sending out some interview stuff for some stories, and in the PR internship, it involved more research than anything. Today was supposed to be the meeting to finalize everything for the town's museum project, so I spent the day looking read more
Historical Immigration Law and a New Genealogy program at USCIS
Louisiana Genealogy Blogs | May 19th 2008 by louisianagenealogyblogs
Genie Angels has posted information about a new genealogy program at USCIS, United States citizenship and Immigration Services. Genealogy research has usually been conducted through a FOIA request. With the establishment of the Genealogy program th read more
CIA Admits to Existence of 7,000 Documents on Secret Detention, R…
World Change Cafe | April 30th 2008 by Ronnie Wright
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) must stop stonewalling congressional oversight committees and release vital documents related to the program of secret detentions, renditions, and torture, three prominent human rights groups said today. Amnesty read more
My FOIA Request Update
GeneaBlogie | April 7th 2008 by Craig Manson
A few weeks ago, I used the State Department's online "FOIA Request Generator" to request the passport files of my grandmother, Jessie Beatrice Bowie (1909-1973). I received an email acknowledgment fairly promptly. Last week, I got the first actual read more
Central Michigan Officials Unable to Confirm/Deny Penalty for Noo…
Republican Ranting | March 27th 2008 by Republican Ranting
OK, so the Central Michigan Life did a story in response to my recent blog post and I just wanted to keep you updated on the situation. The CM-Life asked for a statement from the university concerning the leak, and Tony Voisin, Director of Student Li read more
FOIA Spotlight: The U.S. Department of State
GeneaBlogie | March 23rd 2008 by Craig Manson
One of Several Posts about Open Government Laws and GenealogyLast week, as we noted, was Sunshine Week, focused on open government, and open records in particular. Although the commemoration has passed, we'll continue in the next few posts to focus o read more
Leaked Info: Noose Student at Central Michigan Suspended
Republican Ranting | March 21st 2008 by Republican Ranting
I received the following information from a Central Michigan University faculty member (read here for my previous post on this: http://inkslwc.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/what-ever-happened-to-the-noose-student-at-cmu/): CMU has kicked the student out u read more
Sen. Clinton WH schedules released today
faboo mama | March 19th 2008 by faboo mama
The National Archives have released Sen. Clinton’s schedules from when she was First Lady. You can go to the National Archives and view them or you can view that at the Clinton Presidential Library’s website. I’ve been scanning th read more
Let the Sunshine In!
GeneaBlogie | March 17th 2008 by Craig Manson
One of Several Posts about Open Government Laws and GenealogyTim Agazio at Genealogy Reviews Online blogs today about his experiences with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). That reminded me that this week (March 16-22) is Sunshine Week.Sunshine read more
National Freedom of Information Coalition conference May 9-10 200…
All Things Reform | March 17th 2008 by David Weller
The NFOIC - National Freedom of Information Coalition - will hold its national conference on May 9 - 10, 2008, in Philadelphia, PA. Called the "2008 FOI Summit", it promotes an active and informed citizenry; your participation is vital.Please visit read more
Write articles on Helium in celebration of Sunshine Week March 16…
All Things Reform | March 12th 2008 by David Weller
Sunshine Week 2008 has partnered with Helium to offer authors opportunities to write about open government and Freedom of Information. Sunshine Week, which will be celebrated March 16-22, 2008, engages people in conversations about open government an read more
Positions on open government and Freedom of Information issues by…
All Things Reform | March 12th 2008 by David Weller
In October of 2007, the then 16 presidential candidates were asked their positions on open government and Freedom of Information issues. Only Bill Richardson answered all of the questions; John Edwards answered some. In response, researchers for th read more
On the right to information
Peryodistang Pinay | March 11th 2008 by isolde
The right to information in the Philippines first appeared in our Constitution 35 years ago, in the early days of Martial Law. Yet while such a right has been recognized in both the 1973 and 1987 Constitutions, the wave of reform that led many countr read more
News: FBI documents contradict 9/11 Commission report
Bobonit - The supressed News source | March 1st 2008 by Robert O'Connor
Hijacker had post-9/11 flights scheduled, files say Newly-released records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request contradict the 9/11 Commission’s report on the Sept. 11, 2001... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://bob read more
Euthanasia stats for Chicago Animal Care and Control
Dundee Boy Comes Home, Tails of Animal Rescue and TNR Endeav… | February 28th 2008 by Yvette Pina
This info was received via an Freedom of Information Act request submitted on behalf of one of my blog readers. I also submitted a request (obviously), but mine has gone unanswered. read more
Freedom of Information Day is March 17, 2008
All Things Reform | February 13th 2008 by David Weller
Sponsored by the Program on Law and Government's Collaboration on Government Secrecy ("GCS") March 17, 2008: 9 am - 4 pm (registration at 8:30 am) American University Washington College of Law4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Room 603, Washington, DC I read more
Sunshine Week is March 16- 22, 2008
All Things Reform | February 13th 2008 by David Weller
As Judicial Watch says, open government is honest government. The American citizen, through the FOIA (Freedom of Information Act), has rights to request information, except homeland security-sensitive info, from the federal government; all states ha read more
Freedom of Information Act passes-- requesting info from federal…
All Things Reform | January 11th 2008 by David Weller
Watchdog blog from Public Citizen reports on the legislative history of the recent FOIA bill signed into law by President Bush on December 31st.For more than 40 years, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) has been thepillar of the framework for tran read more
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