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1967 US statute regarding access to information produced by the US government; gave individuals, including non-US citizens, rights to apply for looking into government files including those - with restrictions - of the US intelligence agencies
ICE’s recent recruitment wave has prompted many questions, but . The available analyses consistently note broad recruitment tactics — including relaxed qualifications and aggressive pay incentives — a...
The available materials present two competing narratives: one claim that related to the 9/11 probe, and a set of administrative or news documents that . The most specific assertion appears in a single...
Public reporting says the Epstein files were not broadly released during Joe Biden’s presidency largely because the Justice Department treated parts of the material as linked to “ongoing criminal inve...
Available reporting in the provided sources does not give a specific tally of how many children detained in family detention centers were released or reunified while President Trump was in office; sou...
A targeted review of the available reporting finds some contemporaneous traces—flight logs and club membership records—linking and in the 1990s, and limited Mar‑a‑Lago visitor log releases and legal f...
Between 2023 and 2025 ICE’s public arrest reporting and the underlying composition of who was being arrested shifted markedly: official categories and coding practices were changed or obscured by the ...
Sealed court documents are generally not accessible to the public through routine channels including PACER or FOIA requests: federal court practice and PACER guidance treat sealed filings as non-publi...
increase margins primarily by cutting operating costs and monetizing captive markets—reducing staff, training, and services while outsourcing and consolidating revenue streams—moves that critics tie t...
A robust independent confirmation or refutation of a claim that on camera depends on three pillars: authenticated original video with intact metadata and , independent corroboration (other footage, wi...
In high‑profile public records releases, rely on statutes, exemptions, and standardized records‑management policies to filter, redact, or withhold graphic or suspicious material, while modern evidence...
The documents provided contain process-level guidance and examples of public-records portals but do not include any specific stadium reservation record or a FOIA/records request that directly shows wh...
Federal law and agency policy require airlines to provide Passenger Name Records (PNR) and authorize CBP to collect and use those records for border security and law enforcement purposes, but the same...
The CIA collects extensive personal and application data from jobseekers through official hiring portals and personnel records, and it conducts deep vetting (background checks, polygraphs, medical exa...
Merging ICE detention datasets across years is feasible but requires careful handling of changing identifiers, dataset boundaries, and processing quirks: Vera’s ICE Detention Trends team documents lin...
Civil-rights litigation and settlements have forced some localized changes to ICE training and directives—most notably a Los Angeles settlement requiring new training and broadcast guidance in the L.A...
The White House physician maintains and documents a president’s health, provides ongoing care, and prepares public summaries, but legal duties around record ownership, confidentiality, and public rele...