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FOIA News: This and that

  • The D.C. Circuit entertained arguments yesterday in Hettena v. CIA, No. 24-5110, a case in which appellant disputes the agency’s redactions to a 2005 OIG report about the death of a suspected Iraqi terrorist at Abu Ghraib prison. Audio is available here.

  • In a February 4th article, the Freedom of the Press Foundation raises concerns about the treatment of USAID records if that agency is dissolved, including the status of pending FOIA requests.

  • A client alert from law firm Gibson Dunn yesterday includes transparency requirements of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Mother Jones opined last week that DOGE was established within the Executive Office of the President instead of as an advisory group in order to dodge transparency.

  • The FBI has posted additional investigatory records about D.B. Cooper.