Washington Times A 2012 court case denying access to White House audiotapes kept in former President Bill Clinton’s sock drawer after he left office could help the Trump legal team in its battle to retrieve records that the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago this month. The 10-year-old court ruling, issued by U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson, …
Just the News Following the announcement that three men now face charges in the 2018 prison killing of Irish mobster James “Whitey” Bulger, a watchdog group is seeking information related to an allegation that the FBI ignored evidence that would have led to his swift arrest while one of the Bureau’s most wanted fugitives. … …
El American The National Institutes of Health (NIH) deleted COVID-19 gene sequences that may have proven valuable to detecting earlier the probability the SARS-CoV-2 virus originated at the Wuhan lab, as was discovered in June 2021. … Now, U.S. district court judge Leonie Brinkema is ordering the NIH to turn over the missing data related …
Sharyl Attkisson A judge in the Eastern District of Virginia has ordered the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to provide unredacted copies of certain documents to ascertain whether NIH improperly redacted them. This ruling pertains to a lawsuit filed by Empower Oversight, a watchdog group seeking information on the NIH’s deletion of Covid-19 genetic data at the …
The Epoch Times A U.S. judge has sided with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and ordered the sealing of a Chinese scientist’s name, even though the name was made public by the NIH in 2020. U.S. Magistrate Judge John Anderson on July 22 ordered documents listing the name placed under seal, granting a motion by the NIH. The …
The Disinformation Chronicle … “[T]he individuals have a substantial privacy interest in avoiding harassment or media scrutiny that would likely follow disclosure,” wrote a lawyer for the NIH to the judge. “Sealing is therefore necessary to protect this information from any further public dissemination.” But what is actually being protected? The American public’s right to access public …
Just The News Republican senators blasted the National Institutes of Health for asking a court to retroactively seal the names of a Chinese researcher and an agency staffer involved in the deletion of data from its genetic sequencing library, calling the effort an ongoing “cover-up” that “further underscores the agency’s shady efforts to conceal pertinent data” on …
Just The News The National Institutes of Health deleted two “sequencing runs” of pangolin coronavirus from its National Library of Medicine (NLM) at a Chinese researcher’s request on the eve of U.S. COVID-19 lockdowns, months before a previously known removal requested by a different Chinese researcher, according to newly disclosed records. Now the agency is trying …
Sharyl Attkisson The watchdog group Empower Oversight is taking action against the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for evading accountability in its legal obligations to disclose “requested” documentation under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). According to Empower Oversight’s court filing, NIH improperly withheld information gathered in response to questions from Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), …