U.S. Justice Department officials have made 86 different requests seeking mountains of information from City Hall regarding their investigation into whether Chicago Police officers might be engaging in practices that violate the Constitution or federal law, according to documents obtained by NBC5 and shared with the Chicago Sun-Times.
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Techdirt: We've been noting for years: when Senator Ron Wyden says that (1) there's a secret interpretation of a law that is at odds with the public's understanding of it, or (2) that government officials are lying, you should pay attention. Continue…
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A new lawsuit is demanding public release of emails from the executive branch's go-to office for legal advice: the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel.
The Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, filed on New Year's Day by a lawyer for Vice News reporter Jason Leopold, seeks emails from the accounts of three former top officials at OLC: Marty Lederman, David Barron and Virginia Seitz. Continue…
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Today we filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Justice Department over their unpublished rules for using National Security Letters and so-called informal “exigent letters” to conduct surveillance of journalists.
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