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...
Journalists Mine FTC Consumer Complaints
FOIAengine: News Media Seeks Records from Consumer Sentinel Network New research from PoliScio Analytics demonstrates how journalists use Freedom of Information Act requests to the Federal Trade Commission to uncover bad news about companies and individuals. The FTC...
The Agony Around Ecstasy
FOIAengine: Media Requests Signaled Issues for a “Party Drug” Going Mainstream With 153 clinical trials to assess whether the party drug known as Ecstasy can help patients suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, optimism was high earlier this summer among...
Rocky Road to a Smoke-Free Future
FOIAengine: Hundreds of Requests About FDA’s Tobacco Regulation With cigarette makers battling for market dominance in a “smoke-free future,” legal and marketing battles are raging – and recent Freedom of Information Act requests may signal what’s coming next. Womble...
Cell Phone Dangers Prompt FOIA Requests
FOIAengine: Questions from Siri & Glimstad Point to Possible Litigation Does radiation from cell phones and cell towers affect human health? There has long been controversy around this question, which the federal government has tried to put to rest by issuing...
A Blizzard of FOIA Requests from Heritage Foundation
FOIAengine: How the Project 2025 Personnel Database Gets Built As the presidential election nears, we’ve been tracking the opposition-research strategies of both major parties. Last week, we examined recent Freedom of Information Act requests from the Democratic...