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Terabytes of Enron data have quietly gone missing from the Department of Energy
Government investigations into California’s electricity shortage, ultimately determined to be caused by intentional market manipulations and capped retail electricity prices by the now infamous Enron Corporation, resulted in terabytes of information being collected by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. This included several extremely large databases, some of which had nearly 200 million rows of data, including Enron’s bidding and price processes, their trading and risk management systems, emails, audio recordings, and nearly 100,000 additional documents. That information has quietly disappeared, and not even its custodians seem to know why.
State Department cable shows exposure of Lockheed bribes threatened NATO’s stability
A State Department cable in the Central Intelligence Agency’s Kissinger archive claims that pending revelations from the Church Committee would rock the Netherlands, potentially forcing it to leave NATO. Even more drastically, the memo warned that this scandal could lead to “the restructuring of the Dutch political system.”
Model plane company used FOIA to ensure accuracy of designs
In the journalistic FOIA community, “commercial requesters” have a bit of a bad reputation for hogging the majority of resources and doing so for profit, rather than to inform. However, there are some notable exceptions, such as the Testor Corporation, which makes model kits. Seeking to make their models as accurate as possible, they (adorably) filed a FOIA request for information on the SR-71 and several other models.
2 Requests
Rejected
Department of Defense Contractor Non-Compete Policies and Documents
Jordan Lassiter sent this request to the Department of Defense, Freedom of Information Policy Office of the United States of America
Completed
Skunkworks interaction with NRO
David McMillan sent this request to the National Reconnaissance Office of the United States of America