Tag: FOIA

FBI Documents Support Claims of Turkish Lobby Criminality

Recently released FBI documents prove the existence of highly sensitive National Security and criminal investigations of "Turkish Activities" in Chicago prior to September 11, 2001. These documents add further support to many of the allegations that former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds has claimed, in public and in Congress, since 2002. The documents were released under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request into an organization called the Turkish American Cultural Alliance (TACA), an organization repeatedly named by Ms. Edmonds as being complicit in the crimes that she became aware of when she was a translator at the FBI.

Yahoo, Verizon: Our Spy Capabilities Would ‘Shock’, ‘Confuse’ Consumers

By Kim Zetter December 1, 2009 Wired.com Want to know how much phone companies and internet service providers charge to funnel your private communications or records to U.S. law enforcement and spy agencies? That's the question muckraker and...

Demolition access to the World Trade Center towers: Part one – Tenants

On occasion, the public has been asked by George W. Bush to refrain from considering certain conspiracy theories. Bush has made such requests when people were looking into crimes in which he might be...

Flight Records For 9/11 Planes Differ From BTS Online Database and FOIA Records

A number of excellent comments follow posting of Aidan Monaghan's latest Freedom of Information Act request results, this time pertaining to the movement of Flights 11 and 77 pre-9/11. We invite readers to read those for ongoing discussion and analysis of this information. Monaghan continues to provide a great service by persistently filing FOIA requests in a number of areas, which we appreciate. You can read more of the results of his extensive work at his blog at 911blogger.com.

Court Pulls Curtain Over White House E-mails

by Chris George May 19, 2009 OMBwatch.org The United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled today that the White House Office of Administration (OA) does not need to respond to Freedom of...

The EFF digs deep into the FBI’s ‘everything bucket’

A new EFF report pulls together everything that's now known about the FBI's monster internal records system. By Jon Stokes April 30, 2009 arstechnica.com Earlier this week, the EFF published a new report detailing the FBI's Investigative Data...