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Wellstone FOI Files Reveal Threats on Late Senator
Image via Wikipedia Eight years ago today, Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash in northern Minnesota. Now, FBI records show the agency investigated several threats against the late...
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Penthouse Founder’s FOI Files Reveal, Well…
Image via Wikipedia Before he rose to notoriety as the founder ofPenthouse magazine, Bob Guccione allegedly wrote letters soliciting customers to buy his dirty photos at the bargain rate of 10 photos...
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Image via Wikipedia The New York Times with a great FOI-driven story on the expanding dragnet after the Bush administration eased up on rules about domestic intel: Within months after the Bush...
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A Record Year for Crazies…
Image via Wikipedia A great FOI-driven story documenting the national outbreak of crazy…. Members of Congess reported a record-high number of threats to their safety in 2010, according to The Hill....
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Seems The Yanks’ Former Boss Worked For The Man…
Image via Wikipedia A GREAT FOI-driven story: The FBI released documents Monday stating that New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner assisted the agency in two investigations— one of them...
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Keeping Austin Weird…
Image by Näystin via Flickr From a great NYT profile on Austin-based anarchist (can an anarchist really have a base?) Scott Crow… Blogged here by Reason: Mr. Crow, a lanky Texas native who works at a...
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FOI At Work: Steve Jobs’ FBI File Released…
All over the news today, brought to you by FOI: The FBI released a decades-old file it kept on Apple co-founder Steve Jobs Image via Wikipedia that noted his past drug use and cites interviews with...
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Ray Bradbury’s FOI File:
Was there any writer the FBI didn’t track back in the day? The FOI file reveals the extent of the creepy tracking of the sic-fi genius: The FBI gave Ray Bradbury a mixed review. Photo of Ray Bradbury....
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Oh Yeah, It’s an Insane Clown Posse FOI Story!
This is bound to do wonders for our analytics… Insane Clown Posse have officially sued the FBI for information about what prompted the agency to list the group’s “Juggalo” fans as a gang, according to...
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FBI To Pay San Fran Journo $470,000
This story makes me so happy for so many reasons. First because I once chatted with Rosenfeld and found him delightful, the epitome of a hard-working scrappy journalist and FOI warrior. Second, because...
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