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  • Hunter Biden Missing from DOJ Pardon Database – Can Only Be Accessed Through FOIA Library… Developing…

    01/15/2025 10:53:35 AM PST · by Tench_Coxe · 10 replies
    Hunter Biden does not appear in the Justice Department’s pardon database and can only be accessed through the FOIA library, according to investigative reporter Paul Sperry.Per Paul Sperry: “Hunter Biden is missing from the Justice Dept’s pardon database in spite of the “full and unconditional pardon” his father the POTUS granted him last month. His clemency does not appear in the case files and can only be accessed thru the FOIA Library”
  • Hmm: FBI Redacts Origins of RussiaGate in Final Report

    01/07/2025 5:15:03 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 28 replies
    Hotair ^ | 01/07/2025 | Ed Morrissey
    Tell me the FBI needs Kash Patel without saying that the FBI needs Kash Patel. More than two years after filing a FOIA demand on the FBI for documents related to the Russia-collusion hoax, the bureau finally produced a six-page document detailing their probable cause for investigating Donald Trump. However, most of the document remains redacted, which means that we still don't know why Andrew McCabe made Trump a target after firing James Comey. Real Clear Investigations' Aaron Maté reports that the FBI wants to keep its "articulable factual basis" for probing whether Trump was a Russian agent under wraps:As...
  • Was Secret Service tied to effort to strip Trump of security detail? Records requests seek answers

    07/21/2024 6:44:58 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 16 replies
    Just the News ^ | 20 Jul, 2024 | Bethany Blankley
    How involved were Secret Service staff with a Democratic congressman’s office to strip former President Donald Trump of his Secret Service detail, if at all? How involved were Secret Service staff with a Democratic congressman’s office to strip former President Donald Trump of his Secret Service detail, if at all? A U.S. Army veteran judge advocate and director of a nonprofit organization wants to know. James Fitzpatrick, director of the Center to Advance Security in America, filed Freedom of Information requests with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security inquiring about Department of Homeland Security Legislative Affairs’ and Secret Service’s staff...
  • Restaurant Gets Around Foie Gras Ban By “Gifting” It To Customers

    07/16/2012 1:34:19 PM PDT · by SMGFan · 18 replies
    Consumerist ^ | July 16, 2012 | By Chris Morran
    The list of clever end runs around California's recent ban on the sale of foie gras continues to grow. First it was the restaurant that claimed exemption from the law because it's in a national park. Now comes an eatery that says the ban doesn't stop a business from giving foie gras away to customers. The owner of Chez TJ in Mountain View, CA, says he hasn't bought any new foie gras since the ban went in to effect on July 1, but that he did stockpile it in advance of that date so that he could later include it...