FOIAengine: What Does the American Accountability Foundation Want to Know – and Why? This week we’re taking a look at the more than 100 Freedom of Information Act requests recently filed by the non-profit American Accountability Foundation. This group, a pugnacious...
FOIAengine: Traders Had an Inside Track on the CPI. Journalists Used FOIA to Expose It. Today’s story is about the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which calculates the all-important Consumer Price Index. It’s also a cautionary tale about how a select few on Wall Street...
FOIAengine: Insights From the Latest FDA and SEC Requests News media outlets are among the most prolific submitters of FOIA requests to federal agencies. These requests signal – in real time – the stories that journalists are researching and writing. To illustrate...
FOIAengine: As Deaths Mounted, J&J “Promised to Correct” – and Sought FDA Records Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) proudly calls itself “the world’s largest and most diversified healthcare products company.” The company had $85 billion in sales last year, and...
FOIAengine: Neuralink’s High Profile Makes It a Target It was a Musk Moment unlike any other: Two weeks ago, the first human participant in Neuralink’s brain-implant trials took the stage to show how he could play chess by imagining where he wanted the pieces to go. ...
FOIAengine: Conservative Activists, Law Firms, Non-Profits Signal Competing Agendas A review of the most recent Freedom of Information Act requests made to the Food and Drug Administration illustrates how political organizations, law firms, news media, and financial...
