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Sep 15, 2026
Garrison DavisHOST
... corporate power, and access to safe food, according to a person close to AOC." Unquote.
Garrison DavisHOST
So i- in spring, her office began specifically working around the issue of glyphosate and pesticides, and ended up contacting some Maha organizers, who together helped FOIA some emails and correspondence which then influenced how AOC addressed and questioned EPA administrator Lee Zeldin, and this produced a lot of viral clips.
Alexandria Ocasio-CortezSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
In fact, tens of thousands of lawsuits in the United States, many issued by farmers with high exposure, um, have been filed against Bayer for failing to warn them about the cancer risk of exposure.
Alexandria Ocasio-CortezSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now interestingly, uh, Administrator Zeldin, um, on February 18th of this year, President Trump released an executive order to increase the production of glyphosate in the United States, correct?
Paul MasonGUEST
So a group of independent investigators managed to access this data through the Protecting Canadians from Unsafe Drugs Act of 2014.
Paul MasonGUEST
But this was only after being told that it could take up to seven years to get the same data via the US FDA under the Freedom of Information Act.
Paul MasonGUEST
And when they finally did get their hands on this data, it became apparent as to why the drug company might have preferred to keep it under wraps.
Paul MasonGUEST
The first striking finding relates to the ability of this study to identify adverse events.
Kurt SandvigHOST
So how, with all of this, how come I say, well, I don't say, how come some people say that this document is only rumored to ex- have existed? Well, for start, there is no physical proof that the specific 1948 UFO estimate of the situation document ever existed.
Kurt SandvigHOST
Not one copy, not one draft, not one official receipt of the document has ever been found in either the National Archives or declassified military records because of the Freedom of Information Act, despite a shit ton of people trying to find any evidence that links to it.
Kurt SandvigHOST
They know that they aren't gonna get a Freedom of Information Act for the estimate of the situation.
Kurt SandvigHOST
That is probably hell and gone disappeared decades later.
Kurt SandvigHOST
I don't think it disappeared right away.
Kurt SandvigHOST
Why is this guy, who was the supervisor of Project Blue Book, the very first one, why is he talking about it so clearly, talking, why is he talking about it so clearly in 1956? Then we go to 1960.
Kurt SandvigHOST
A USAF personnel claimed that the document never existed, but several Air Force officers, one consultant, and a bunch of other people in the know at that time in 1947, '48, described the report as being a real document that was suppressed.
Kurt SandvigHOST
Jenny Randles and Peter Hough describe the estimate as, quote, "The holy grail of ufology," and note you can't get it through the Freedom of, Freedom of Information Acts.
Mark RiveraCORRESPONDENT
Guards wearing black uniforms accompanied by muzzled German shepherds have been a common sight on the CTA's train platforms for more than a decade.
Mark RiveraCORRESPONDENT
Wouter's turned to the Freedom of Information Act, known by its nickname FOIA, the law granting the public's right to access government records.
Conley WoutersSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I sent a bunch of FOIAs to the CTA.
Mark RiveraCORRESPONDENT
Did you get those documents in a timely fashion? No, I did not.
Alexis KnightHOST
Public pressure grows.
Alexis KnightHOST
The Bridgefield Signal, a weekly but dogged newspaper, digs into financial records, submitting FOIA requests for school spending and internal emails.
Alexis KnightHOST
The community posts anonymously on Facebook feeds on rumor and accusation.
Alexis KnightHOST
Principal Evers, still at the board meeting, is peppered with questions.
speaker_4HOST
It elevates the material from a standard airport paperback into a prestige thriller about the separation of powers and the necessity of a free press.
speaker_4HOST
Darby and Gray aren't using subpoenas, they're using FOIA requests and journalistic sources to fight the White House.
speaker_3HOST
Though it wouldn't be a perfect list without a funny visual lowlight.
speaker_3HOST
If you watch this movie, Stanley Tucci's assassin disguises are intentionally aggressively unattractive.
Derek DeStefanGUEST
We have all the Air Force record.
Derek DeStefanGUEST
We don't have anything that they're willing to share through FOIA or anything else, National Archives.
Derek DeStefanGUEST
We have not gotten any official documents saying he's n- they-- he was part of the NRO upon retirement of the Air Force.
Derek DeStefanGUEST
But, um, you know, we'll, we'll see why that, that all adds up and why that's most likely the case.
Pamela BrowneGUEST
No there.
Pamela BrowneGUEST
Oh, I also filed a FOIA with the State Department, Chris.
Pamela BrowneGUEST
You guys are experts on FOIAs.
Pamela BrowneGUEST
And I asked for visa records on him.
Pamela BrowneGUEST
And it came back that I had to get his permission to
Pamela BrowneGUEST
Oh, okay.
Pamela BrowneGUEST
That's old school to you, but I thought that was...
Pamela BrowneGUEST
So tell me a little bit about when I first contacted you guys over a year ago, when I started digging in, I wanted to know if you ever had records in your FOIA litigation showing that someone was an asset for the CIA or another agency.
Zak PaineHOST
Now, also on the subject of 9-11, let's take a look at the video from the Pentagon.
Zak PaineHOST
This, of course, was FOIA'd by Judicial Watch and Tom Fitton.
Zak PaineHOST
He shares this, and it's laughable what he writes, but he says, in order to help address 9-11 conspiracy theories and further complete the public record of that awful day, Judicial Watch sued for and obtained the Pentagon parking camera footage of American Airlines Flight 77 hitting the Pentagon.
Zak PaineHOST
All right.
Tara PalmeriGUEST
Now Je- uh, JD Vance likes to say, oh, the 2.5 million files are all a man named Jeffrey Epstein, another man named Jeffrey Epstein.
Tara PalmeriGUEST
That's absurd, okay? We know from what we've seen in the files, though, that his lawyers, uh, wrote a FOIA request, a freedom of information request, to the NSA, that's the National Security Agency, and the CIA, asking for proof of affiliation.
Tara PalmeriGUEST
They wanted to prove that Jeffrey Epstein had done something for the United States in terms of what? Likely an informant, right? I believe that Jeffrey Epstein, based on my reporting, was a sort of gun for hire you could say, and I, I believe that he was working for multiple governments at the same time.
Tara PalmeriGUEST
He certainly bragged about it.
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