House’s corruption probe goes after Biden documents at National Archives

House lawmakers investigating President Biden are seeking access to some of Mr. Biden’s emails from his time as vice president and all drafts of a speech he delivered to Ukraine lawmakers in 2015 when his son had a high-paying job on the board of a Ukraine energy firm. The Washington Times stories: White House

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State Department Partners With Left-Leaning Media in Propaganda Push, Documents Reveal

A State Department agency with a mission of combating disinformation abroad has helped shape coverage by—and in some cases subsidized—U.S. news outlets, according to records obtained by a conservative legal organization.  America First Legal says that over 600 pages of documents obtained in a public records lawsuit show the State Department’s Global Engagement Center worked with privately owned media organizations to tout government propaganda.  Among those named in the documents are The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, and PolitiFact.  PolitiFact’s parent organization,…

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EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Signal Demands Documents on FBI Targeting ‘Radical Traditional Catholics’

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL — The Daily Signal filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request this week demanding that the FBI turn over all documents related to “radical traditional Catholics” and the Southern Poverty Law Center, as news broke that the FBI had published an internal memo about “radical traditional Catholics” citing the SPLC, which brands mainstream conservative and Christian nonprofits “hate groups,” putting them on a map with the Ku Klux Klan. Although the FBI has since rescinded the memo, the FOIA request, submitted by the Heritage…

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National Archives Scraps ‘Transparency’ Mission When It Comes to Trump Documents 

The Biden administration has turned what should be the most transparent of government agencies, the National Archives and Records Administration, into one of the least transparent agencies—rivaling even the FBI.   Established in 1934, the National Archives has a mission to identify, protect, preserve, and make publicly available all historically valuable records.   But the National Archives has become politicized by the Biden administration and no longer provides transparency in public records. Jodi Foor, the National Archives’ deputy Freedom of Information Act officer, would not answer a FOIA request from…

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