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WATCH: Filing FOIAs – #SolutionsWatch

You’ve heard of FOIA, but how do you actually make use of it? What’s involved in filing a FOIA? Who can do it? What kind of documents can be FOIAd? What documents have been uncovered with this method and what remains to be revealed? And what does FOIA stand for, anyway?

Joining James Corbett to answer these questions in the latest edition of #SolutionsWatch is Philumina Johanni, staff attorney at JudicialWatch.org.

Sources, shownotes and links – as well as audio versions and download options – can be found here. Previous episodes of #SolutionsWatch can be found here and here.
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ironic
ironic
Nov 4, 2024 4:59 PM

James Corbett with another good video.
Thanks

Jeffrey Strahl
Jeffrey Strahl
Nov 2, 2024 6:49 PM

So when will there be an article here about Christine Massey’s FOIAs growing file of responses, 225 and counting?

https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/68-health-science-institutions-globally-all-failed-to-cite-even-1-record-of-sars-cov-2-purification-by-anyone-anywhere-ever/

Big Al
Big Al
Nov 2, 2024 5:34 PM

I was thinking about filing a FOIA for information regarding the school district where I live. They’re having significant budget problems and talking about cutting this and cutting that and from my experience as an organizational/compensation analyst, I’m interested in seeing how top heavy they are in the administrative/management ranks. So, I want to get hold of some detailed organization charts and position/salary listings so I can analyze them and perhaps push back at some of the curriculum and other cuts while keeping such a costly administrative/management structure, which is what I assume based on experience working with government agencies and departments.

So, for those that view FOIA requests as a waste of time or always ignored/muted by the government, etc., maybe so for certain controversial and sensitive things, but they can be very helpful in getting information from the government that would otherwise be more difficult.

Howard
Howard
Nov 2, 2024 4:09 PM

The American people have put a padlock on FOIA. It’s called National Security. I blame that one on the people rather than the criminal cabal because National Security is a term that “Plays in Peoria.”

You won’t find one person in a thousand who realizes National Security is the single greatest threat to the nation’s survival. Given humanity’s fascination with electronic existence, there is NOTHING secret any longer. Anyone with the technology already knows everything safely hidden away from “our enemies” in the FOIA vault.

Only the poor self-duped American people don’t know any of it.

judith
judith
Nov 3, 2024 11:50 AM
Reply to  Howard

Some of us know it, Howard.

entitlement
entitlement
Nov 2, 2024 9:56 AM

CDL shill rabblt tooth tells the comatized via a Lawyer to write santa clause letters to government
to get them to do send the documentation to expose them selves.

The best part is only 2 articles ago OD was telling it viewers selection are rigged.

In my million of years I have yet seen anyone get prosecuted.
what I have seen is more people half awake full back to sleep thinking donating
for a tribunal court case or some supreme CHL court judgement OR some shills promoted via alt media legal fee’s is going to change things.

wakey wakey They run the FOIA.

hello
hello
Nov 2, 2024 9:12 AM

We remember the terrible event of the mass murder by the insane Breivik. The Norwegian emergency services need weeks to recover the bodies from the water. It was about 4 tons (!) of dead people. 80 people is already a lot, but what about 800, 8000, 80,000 or even 800,000? And all this within six months on completely impassable, difficult to work terrain (high groundwater level, insect infestation, etc.). Over 40,000 tons of human flesh, including bones, disappeared without a trace. Indeed: an almost demonic work of magic, committed exactly 80 years ago, when superior Nazi technology still possessed the secret knowledge of extraterrestrial powers!

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Nov 2, 2024 11:44 PM
Reply to  hello

This guy just did his job as he was ordered to do. Blame the politicians. The bodies went up in smoke, an efficient way to make millions disappear up in the blue. Thats it.

Claret
Claret
Nov 3, 2024 11:31 AM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen.

The average body will leave behind about 2-3 kilos of cremains which will not burn and will not go up in smoke.

hello
hello
Nov 3, 2024 12:27 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen.

The question is rather whether he ever existed (except in the imagination of self-proclaimed survivors aka “it was real in my mind”). Strong doubts are likely to be raised. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible_(Treblinka_guard)

hello
hello
Nov 3, 2024 2:23 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen.

If you ask me: it’s highly questionable whetherthis alleged “monster” ever existed at all (ex-cept in “it was real in my mind” by Rosenblat).https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible_(Treblinka_guard)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Rosenblat

mgeo
mgeo
Nov 2, 2024 7:25 AM

If FOIAs worked, there would be no criminal government, i.e., no treacherous treaty, invasion for profit, waste of public wealth, oligopoly, or harmful/fraudulent product/service.

Johnny
Johnny
Nov 2, 2024 5:26 AM

The insatiable lust for TOTAL CONTROL makes for strange, but predictable bedfellow$$$$$$$$$$:

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/11/02/varg-n02.html

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Nov 3, 2024 10:08 PM
Reply to  Johnny

World Socialist Control! Fixed. Same smearing tactics and Liberal language as always:

“Endorsing Donald Trump for president, ultra radical far-right anti-vaccine homophobic anti-semit zealot Robert F. Kennedy Jr. supported Trump’s campaign.(bad bad guy).”

“Kennedy, who has no medical degree and is a billionaire, used his fame, money and connections to spread lies about the red China vaccine that all we Liberal Commies love.”
(bad bad Kennedy).

Johnny
Johnny
Nov 2, 2024 5:13 AM
Johnny
Johnny
Nov 2, 2024 4:52 AM

Isn’t FOI an oxymoronic acronym?

When the Ghouls Who Rule don’t want us to know something because it interferes with their bottom lines or obsessive control, we ain’t gonna find out, come hell or high water.

What FOIs really do is delude the Useless Eaters into a state of false hope.

ChairmanDrusha
ChairmanDrusha
Nov 2, 2024 4:41 AM

A Canadian making a video about FOIAs, without mentioning, let alone even consulting, Christine Massey. But I guess his handlers at CHD wouldn’t like that.

judith
judith
Nov 3, 2024 11:59 AM
Reply to  ChairmanDrusha

There is some dispute about the FOIA/Christine Massey issue.

If you file a FOIA correctly, you will receive whatever the FOIA office has that you are requestiong.

The FOIA office did not have the purification reports that Christine Massey requested. From what I gather, that is the information she received. The FOIA office does not have those records.

Some say that that does not mean that there are no reports, but that the FOIA office does not have them.

FOIA can only give you what they have.

Which is not to say that there isn’t possible duplicity or obfuscation.

Penelope
Penelope
Nov 2, 2024 12:49 AM

If you’re dating, here’s some advance info you might want:
unjected.com. You won’t even need a FOIA for it.

Thom Crewz
Thom Crewz
Nov 2, 2024 1:14 AM
Reply to  Penelope

😆

Johnny
Johnny
Nov 2, 2024 5:01 AM
Reply to  Penelope

‘Unjected’

A good play on words, but I would proceed with caution.
Might be a honey trap, with Big B waiting in the shadows.

ChairmanDrusha
ChairmanDrusha
Nov 3, 2024 3:24 PM
Reply to  Penelope

Flashmob your way to freedom!

Thom Crewz
Thom Crewz
Nov 1, 2024 10:33 PM

Great interview. Some FOIA requests are outright ignored if the subject request is deemed too sensitive. I’m pretty certain your name goes on ‘Ze list’ if you hammer them with requests they feel uncomfortable with.