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FOIA 101: How to dig up information on federal political appointments
There may be no complete repository of federal appointees, but FOIA can be your inroad to learning the history of who has been added to an agency.
CIA archives outline the pre-history of the infamous OPM hack
The plot of John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold hinges on the bureaucratic details of retirement benefits for spies. Recently uncovered documents from the Central Intelligence Agency archives show that real-world spy stories sometimes do, too.
How FOIA can hold the powerful accountable, public and private alike
FOIA is a great way to keep the powerful is check, whether they be federal agencies, their employees, or tech giants. This week, stories from the Daily Californian, RealLivePolitics, and Columbia Journalism Review about revealing attempts by the government and two leading tech companies to withhold information from the public.
FOIAing the Trump Administration: A look at federal employee satisfaction surveys
The nonprofit Partnership for Public Service analyzed data from the Office of Personnel Management’s annual Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey to create an index ranking of which agencies are the best places to work, according to their employees. One of the most interesting ways to sort this ranking is the change from 2016 to 2017. In many cases, FOIA has given us clues about why certain agencies experienced big swings in employee satisfaction in the first year of the Trump administration. In other cases, this statistic can tell us which agencies - particularly smaller, seldom covered ones - warrant more FOIA scrutiny.
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Records - Dr. Marion Gruber and Dr. Philip Krause (FDA Office of Vaccines Research and Review)
Erin Marie Miller sent this request to the Office of Personnel Management of the United States of America