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The use of FOIA requests and lawsuits to force the release of the Epstein files and other documents.
Transparency around DHS and ICE procurement of surveillance tools is real but highly uneven: procurement notices, inspector‑general reports, and civil society FOIA wins have revealed major purchases a...
, signed into law on November 19, 2025, directed to make public all unclassified files relating to within 30 days — effectively setting a December 19, 2025 deadline . The Justice Department produced o...
Available reporting documents numerous fatal use-of-force incidents involving federal immigration officers, including , but the provided sources do not contain a single, public, authoritative year-by-...
Independent, external autopsies or truly external investigations into the 30–32 deaths in custody in 2025 are limited and uneven: families, advocacy groups and local medical examiners have produced or...
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...
Two independent, public projects provide the most widely cited yearly time series for ICE arrests and removals: the Deportation Data Project, which republishes and processes individual-level ICE, CBP ...
has published millions of pages from the so-called files but left extensive redactions and—by the department’s count—millions more documents withheld, with the most prominent redactions tied to victim...
to presidential libraries have been used as a targeted investigative tool to seek records—emails, visitor logs and other correspondence—that might document contacts between (and his associates) and pu...
Detainees’ lawyers and civil‑rights groups have responded to the report’s allegations with a coordinated blend of litigation, emergency court requests, and public advocacy — arguing that practices hav...
and targeted investigations have been one of the clearest windows into where concentrates personnel and operations—producing datasets, FOIA logs, contract records and litigation that together show arr...
ICE has, in prior litigation and FOIA-driven disclosure efforts, produced whole categories of contracts and agreements—most visibly detention facility contracts and procurement proposals—through lawsu...
ICE’s FOIA releases have long suffered from selective withholding, technical extraction problems, summary closures and chronic delays that impede reproducing enforcement statistics; courts and litigan...
National Security Letters (NSLs) are administrative subpoenas the FBI may issue without prior judicial approval to compel business records while routinely attaching nondisclosure (gag) orders that bar...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) handles potential prosecutions of high-profile figures through established policies that prioritize departmental charging standards, internal review, and deference to l...
The Trump administration’s repeated public claim that it was “the most transparent” contrasts sharply with a substantial body of reporting and legal work documenting patterns of secrecy, resistance to...
No peer-accepted expert report or newly surfaced government document since 2000 has credibly overturned the multiple official findings that Vincent (Vince) Foster’s death was a suicide; the record sho...
The most recent documented release of a key, participant‑level clinical trial dataset from a vaccine manufacturer occurred when the FDA included the Pfizer pivotal trial ADSL (subject‑level analysis) ...