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Real Clear Investigations Frustrated over what they see as the Securities and Exchange Commission’s stonewalling, Senate Republicans fired off a critical letter this summer to SEC Chairman Gary Gensler. An ordinary American, they grumbled, “would be entitled to receive more records from the SEC” than the powerful Senate Banking Committee lawmakers had received to date to perform …

Law360 The Securities and Exchange Commission asked a Virginia federal judge on Wednesday to give it an early win in its records dispute with a watchdog group over documents that might reveal former high-ranking SEC officials’ conflicts of interests associated with their oversight of cryptocurrency. The SEC said in a court filing that it has already given …

Breitbart Empower Oversight, a nonpartisan nonprofit, is calling for an investigation into ethics failures at the SEC after records emerged alleging one of its former employees, William Hinman, had a direct financial interest in a law firm with a financial interest in the value of Ether, Simpson Thacher, while working at the SEC. … Empower Oversight has …

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 …