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Delco / Economics / FOIA / Government / New Jersey / News / Philadelphia / Politicking — 2 Comments
11
Dec 07

Delco, the FAA, PHL, and Robert Moses’ Traffic Paradox

Come 12/17, my life is going to get considerably more noisy.

It is on this date that the FAA will change flight plans allowing departing aircraft from Philadelphia International by flying west over residential Delaware County as opposed to flight plans that take flights north or south over the Delaware River and largely industrial areas.

The FAA is stating that this aerial land grab (remember, the county may own the majority of the land the airport sits on, but does not own the skies) is necessary to avert gridlock on the tarmac. Continue reading →

Corruption / FOIA / Government / Journalism / Memes / Terror / War / Webculture — Comments Off
30
Mar 07

What are the odds of getting this from FOIA?

A long time ago, probably as the domestic spying-slash-internet-tapping scandal was breaking, I posted the following search – thinking about what I'd like to see – the Government submitting to the same oversight as us jus' folks.  Imagine if we could see what the Executive Branch was Googling?

Whit House Search

I've long maintained that watching your server logs (incoming, that is) is a great idea.  I've often gotten insight into stories and found out things that I might have not found out through other means.  For example, why was the CIA looking for "No Fly List Spreadsheet xls" (story here), or what is OSIS?  And who is looking for Matt O'Donnell nude (he's a local ABC affiliate news anchor)?  Why were people from the Republican National Committee, such as "Shawn Reinschmiedt",  Googling staff members regarding the "caging list"?  Why was someone from the Pentagon looking for a WaPo story on corrupted-company MZM, connected to the most corrupt Congressman in US history?  Hell, I even had someone ON THE FLOOR OF THE US Senate looking for "Joe Lieberman" (hint, he's standing over there, with the Republicans).

While there has long been a long historical precedent of wrangling over internal emails, from Reagan and Iran-Contra through Clinton to the current day, the webserver logs are far more interesting.  What delicious treasure-troves await us in the White House webserver logs? 

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FOIA / Government / Politicking — Comments Off
10
Nov 06

Need some wood?

What would you say if I told you the White House had a half-billion to spend in wallking around money at the start of this (just completed) campaign season, and was free to spend it without disclosure or Congressional oversight?

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Election 06 / FOIA / Government / Politicking / Propaganda — Comments Off
17
Oct 06

Trust, FOIA, the FCC, and the USDOJ.

Got this in my email as a Google Alert:

Attorney General Issues Report to the President…
U.S. Newswire (press release) – Washington,DC,USA
… R. Gonzales submitted to President Bush today the Department's report regarding the government-wide administration of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). …

I went to the USDOJ website to look for it – alas, it's nowhere to be found.  So back to Google News I go searching for FOIA.  And what do I find? Continue reading →

Conspiracies / Election 04 / FOIA / Government / Parapolitics / Politicking — Comments Off
01
Jun 06

Felonious Conduct.

Via Rolling Stone:

But despite the media blackout, indications continued to emerge that something deeply troubling had taken place in 2004. Nearly half of the 6 million American voters living abroad(3) never received their ballots — or received them too late to vote(4) — after the Pentagon unaccountably shut down a state-of-the-art Web site used to file overseas registrations.(5) A consulting firm called Sproul & Associates, which was hired by the Republican National Committee to register voters in six battleground states,(6) was discovered shredding Democratic registrations.(7) In New Mexico, which was decided by 5,988 votes,(8) malfunctioning machines mysteriously failed to properly register a presidential vote on more than 20,000 ballots.(9) Nationwide, according to the federal commission charged with implementing election reforms, as many as 1 million ballots were spoiled by faulty voting equipment — roughly one for every 100 cast.(10)

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