News Media and Non-Profits Probe New Trump Initiatives

by Randy E. Miller | Mar 26, 2025 | FOIA, News Media, Non-Profits, Politics

FOIAengine: Leading Topics Include DOGE, Executive Orders and Confidential Data As President Donald Trump moves quickly to implement his ambitious agenda, media organizations and non-profits are accelerating and sharpening their use of Freedom of Information Act...

Early Signals from FOIA Requests Show How Trump Actions Will Be Targeted

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...

Questioning U.S. Readiness for Deepfake Attacks

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...

Questioning a Monopoly in Outer Space

by Randy E. Miller | Dec 18, 2024 | FOIA, NASA, News Media

FOIAengine: Reporter Seeks Answers About NASA-SpaceX Relationship SpaceX has had a good year. In June, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded SpaceX a contract valued at up to $843 million to build the spacecraft that will be used to perform...

Media Seeks Kennedy’s Recent FDA Contacts

by John A. Jenkins | Dec 11, 2024 | FDA, FOIA, News Media, Politics

FOIAengine: HHS Designee Is Target After Calling FDA “Corrupt” Freedom of Information Act requests from the news media about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hit the Food and Drug Administration almost immediately after President-elect Trump announced his choice of Kennedy to...

More Danger for an Indian Tycoon

by John A. Jenkins | Nov 26, 2024 | Corporate Investigators, FOIA, Hedge Funds, Law Firms, Litigation, News Media, Politics, SEC

FOIAengine: Requests Signaled Trouble for Guatam Adani Guatam Adani, India’s most powerful tycoon and a close ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, knows what it’s like to stare death in the face and survive.  Danger has a knack for finding him.  But each time – a...