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bit.ly/2F01PHF March 20, 2019, 3:30- 5:00 PM, Stimson Center. Join for expert discuss'n on the challenges posed by the United States’ approach to airstrikes in Somalia & around the world, & impact of these operations on standards for transparency and accountability.
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Federal judge temporarily blocks Texas from purging voters in citizenship review texastribune.org/2019/02/27/… @TexasTribune
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Trump administration backtracks on replacement of Education Department watchdog politi.co/2GgrpL1
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NEW: Internal Trump admin email shows @TheJusticeDept discussing the possibility of changing current legal protections that keep census info confidential & that sharing individuals' responses w law enforcement, national security officers may "come up later for renewed debate"👇
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@SenatorCollins Take this as your chance to redeem yourself for voting to confirm Gina Haspel, who has direct implications in waterboarding, as Dir of CIA. Don't put Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court.
Rear Admiral Hutson: Why Senators Should Vote No on Kavanaugh justsecurity.org/60731/rear-… via @just_security
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Not new news, but amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/07/24/p…
Exclusive: White House stops announcing calls with foreign leaders...Readouts are still released internally.
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@SenatorLeahy powerful remarks re Kavanugh records begin at 25:08 c-span.org/video/?449865-1/s…
c-span.org/video/?449865-1/s… 10am Exec Comm (committee hearing room) -- the first public hearing since the Rs announced the hearing date and limits on public access to K record. May be fireworks!
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bit.ly/2vOQx5g The Presid'l Records Act provides former Pres independent right of access to the records of his admin. PRA rep of Pres G.W. Bush req'd and rec'd from NARA a copy of the WH Counsel’s Ofc and nomination records & providing copies directly to Sen Jud'y Comm
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©CenterforProgressiveReform Sometimes numbers do lie. Even attempted in good faith, cost-benefit analysis is a poor fit for environ'l & public health safeguards. cost-benefit analysis is rarely attempted in good faith. bit.ly/2nBnGgr
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Blumenthal & Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats, Including Leahy, File FOIA Request To Compel Release Of Kavanaugh Documents leahy.senate.gov/press/08081…
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Government Information Watch's Comments on Citizenship Question in the 2020 Census govinfowatch.net/wp-content/…
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National Academies' Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) is telling the Commerce Department that the proposed citizenship question is inconsistent with the Census Bureau's missions and would undermine the Census Bureau's credibility. nap.edu/catalog/25215/letter…
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Congressional Correspondence related to the nomination of Brett M. Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court Under the Presidential Records Act, , Congress may request access to presidential records in the holdings of the National Archives archives.gov/foia/congressio…
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"The use of anonymous shell companies by those engaged in human trafficking, drug dealing, and other crimes, allows criminals to launder and spend money attained through criminal activity without accountability," wrote the Attorneys General. Read the Attorneys General Letter here
24 State Attorneys General wrote to Congress supporting action to disclose the actual owner of a shell company to law enforcement #transparency #shellcompanies #anonymouscompanies #beneficialownership jubileeusa.org/over_20_state…
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If Senate Republicans sideline this nonpartisan process and instead rely on self-selected partisan lawyers to self-select documents from just 2 of Judge Kavanaugh’s 5 years in the White House, it will mark the most partisan and incomplete vetting of a SCt nominee in my memory. #
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For every Supreme Court nominee since Watergate, professional archivists with the National Archives have reviewed any associated White House records of the nominee and provided them to the Senate Judiciary Committee – as required by statute.
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Instead, the Committee will rely on lawyers representing the interests of President George W. Bush to conduct a parallel review of such documents and to produce them to the Committee as they see fit. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), released the following statement: