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USA v. John Kiriakou: Selected Case Files

In the news is a letter written by John Kiriakou to Edward Snowden. John Kiriakou is currently serving 30 months in prison for exposing the name of a CIA operative, and his association with a covert CIA operation.

If you want to know more about the Kiriakou trial, the Federation of American Scientists has kindly made copies of selected case files from the Kiriakous court case available for free and easy access.

This type of web page with access to court documents is invaluable. My appreciations to the Federation of American Scientists.

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The Ernie Lazar FBI FOIA document site

Ernie Lazar is a man who made a signification number of FOIA requests to the FBI over the years. According to the Medipedia entry on Ernie Lazar:

Ernest Lazar also Ernie Lazar (born 1945) is a “conspiracy buff”, researcher, and archivist of American nationalist and anti-communist organizations and individuals. Since 1980 he has flooded the FBI with thousands of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests obtaining over 600,000 pages of documents on over 2,000 individuals. In addition, he received information from the FBI on the identities of others who requested the same documents. Lazar once had a dispute with the FBI over a $4800 search fee request. The way he got around the fee was to claim he was a freelance journalist.

I’m not necessarily in agreement that it’s a good thing to flood agencies with FOIA requests, nor do I endorse any particular conspiracy theory, but there’s some very interesting documents in the collection.

You can explore the 1200 documents, and download whichever interests you, including large zip files of the entire document set, at the Internet Archives Ernie Lazar collection.

I appreciate Mr. Lazar making all of his FOIA documents freely and easily available to all.

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Additional filings in horse slaughter inspection lawsuit

update: July 9, 2013

The USDA has posted a link to copies of horse slaughter inspection requests.
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The Judge evidently conferred with plaintiffs and from what I can decipher from court documents, the USDA agreed to hold on inspections until some form of resolution of the case (document20). According to the schedule set out by the judge, and if I understand the documents correctly, this delays inspections until at least September.

This is born out by a brief update the HSUS has posted to its press release on the lawsuit:

JULY 3 UPDATE: Horse slaughter inspections in the U.S. are delayed for weeks due to The HSUS and Front Range Equine Rescue’s legal action.

The case history docket page has been updated with links to the latest filings.

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