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Documents obtained by FOIA Files reveal that the tedious work required to fully implement President Donald Trump’s executive order could surpass his time in office.
When the Justice Department sold Once Upon a Time in Shaolin it concealed the sale price citing “trade secrets.” Now, after a four year FOIA battle, the DOJ finally disclosed the price.
In three major hacks, Treasury didn’t deploy cybersecurity measures that could have prevented the attacks or flagged the intruders sooner, a Bloomberg News investigation found.
A cache of documents from the first Trump administration shows how its Iran policy, including the US withdrawal from a key nuclear deal, arguably laid the groundwork for last weekend’s bombing.
The Air Force may have been caught off guard or was just unprepared when President Donald Trump said the next generation fighter jet would be called F-47, documents obtained by FOIA Files suggest.
In a newly revealed March memo, officials proposed ways to dramatically curtail the US government’s disaster response role, such as by ending aid for smaller disasters and cutting housing funds for survivors.
The agency denied my FOIA request for documents about the former FBI director’s Instagram post that appeared to call for Trump’s removal from office, indicating an investigation is still ongoing.
The regulator responded to my FOIA request about a data breach at a software company it uses to manage its investigations and audits by stating it will “neither confirm nor deny” documents exist.
The lawmakers gave Pam Bondi two weeks to respond to questions about the Justice Department’s plans to dissolve a unit tasked with dismantling organized crime networks and drug cartels.
An MOU reveals the procedures for conducting background investigations for “high-level national security positions.” Plus, budget cuts have impacted the State Department’s FOIA operations.
FOIA requests at numerous federal agencies in February were “lost” by a government records contractor. It turns out, the “data failure” was linked to two convicted hackers who worked at the company.
Failures in cybersecurity practices at a software company that helps federal agencies manage investigations and FOIA requests allowed two convicted hackers to delete databases, according to internal documents.
Task forces that specialize in fighting organized crime, drug cartels and human traffickers were told to shut down by Sept. 30, according to documents and people familiar with the matter
A list released to FOIA Files by the Office of Personnel Management gives color on the individuals executing DOGE priorities. Among other things it reveals their salary ranges, job titles and official government employee categorization.
The former ambassador to Germany was investigated by the State Department’s internal watchdog in 2020 over the unauthorized disclosure of a “sensitive but unclassified” cable. It’s exactly the type of leak the Trump administration has recently cracked down on.
Newly released emails obtained by FOIA Files reveal the number of inspectors general fired by Trump and how the securities regulator’s watchdog prepared for the possibility she would be next.
When the then-former president was under investigation for unlawfully retaining classified documents, he filed a Freedom of Information Act Request with the National Archives for a wide range of records about his case. It wasn’t the first time Trump wielded the public records tool.
