by John A. Jenkins | Mar 12, 2025 | FOIA, Politics, SEC
FOIAengine: WILL TRUMP FIRE ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGES? LinkedIn is usually a repository of routine announcements and postings, but this headline raised an alarm: Expect All SEC Administrative Law Judges to be Fired Forthwith. The prediction of such a drastic...
by John A. Jenkins | Mar 5, 2025 | Cryptocurrency, FOIA, SEC
FOIAengine: Finding a Signal Amid Hundreds of Requests Cameron Winklevoss, half of the identical-twin duo at the helm of the cryptocurrency exchange named Gemini (yes, Houston, we get it), had a big reason to celebrate last week’s news that the government dropped its...
by Randy E. Miller | Feb 26, 2025 | FOIA, News Media, Politics
FOIAengine: Journalists and Non-Profits Gear Up Within hours of President Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, news media organizations and non-profits began filing Freedom of Information Act requests to gain insights into early Trump administration...
by John A. Jenkins | Feb 12, 2025 | DOD, FOIA, News Media, SEC, Stock Market
FOIAengine: Homeland Security Report, Media Requests Highlight the Issue When a deepfake photo of an explosion near the Pentagon caused investor panic in 2023, the hysteria caught authorities off guard and stymied investigators. The photo spread like a contagion...
by John A. Jenkins | Feb 5, 2025 | FOIA, Non-Profits, Politics
FOIAengine: Vought’s Center for Renewing America Shows the Priorities of OMB’s New Director. But Will He Be in Synch with Musk? This week, we’re looking at the events, and the players, involved in the shambolic roll-out of the Trump Administration’s...
by Randy E. Miller | Jan 22, 2025 | DOD, FOIA, Non-Profits, Politics
FOIAengine: Over 1,500 Requests Probe Views Using FOIA A new FOIAengine analysis of just-released Department of Defense Freedom of Information Act requests reveals the extent to which the conservative initiative Project 2025 used massive numbers of FOIA requests to...
