Tom Fitton's Weekly Update Podcast
Aug 21, 2026 · 42 min · 10 segments
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Well, it may be no surprise to you that the left is upset that a legal expert with a record of suing the government, both under Republican and Democrat administrations, and a... an expert beyond many others in terms of having unique uh... uh... experience working at judicial watch is uh... running uh... a transparency andy in the justice department why wouldn't she be an excellent pick So, of course, the left is angry.
Bloomberg ran a news story the other day that was widely derided for being essentially stupid, trying to controversialize Katie's appointment.
Katie Blankenberg was announced as director of the Office of Information Policy last week.
among open records advocates and former government FOIA lawyers that Blinkenberg may favor document production to Trump supporting causes and that the office is turning away from stable nonpartisan leadership.
And Bloomberg highlights that prior to President Trump turning the position into a political appointment, there had only been, I think, two different OIP directors over 30 years, which is... at least from my perspective, an indictment of the office as opposed to something reassuring about so-called stability.
And so Katie is in a position now to reform, as I note, transparency operations at the Justice Department and government-wide.
Now, supposedly she has to recuse herself, according to the report, from Judicial Watch matters, which I think I'm sure is going to be overly conservative, because why should she have to recuse herself from all Judicial Watch matters? I'm not quite sure.
why that would be the case, but that's the way the so-called ethics system works in Washington, D.C.
They come up with fake rules to manage fake issues in order to suppress individuals from doing what they know how to do best, which is to work on, in this case, transparency and disclosure.
So here we have someone who, for the first time, comes from what is called the requester community, the people who request under FOIA.
And what is the reaction of the lib media and the leftists that run it? Oh, we should be nervous about it.
Even if she has no ability to work on Judicial Watch cases, I know her efforts on behalf of transparency, given her record here, will be stellar, at least as best she can get it done within the leviathan that is the Justice Department.
What is Judicial Watch's loss is America's gain with our colleague Katie Bleichenberg now going and now being at the Justice Department as head of the Office of Information Policy.
But she's got a lot of work to do, and of course, just because Katie's there doesn't mean we're gonna stop suing the Justice Department or other agencies for records and demanding answers, and nor does it mean the courts aren't gonna stop demanding answers.
Well, it may be no surprise to you that the left is upset that a legal expert with a record of suing the government, both under Republican and Democrat administrations, and a... an expert beyond many others in terms of having unique uh... uh... experience working at judicial watch is uh... running uh... a transparency andy in the justice department why wouldn't she be an excellent pick So, of course, the left is angry.
Bloomberg ran a news story the other day that was widely derided for being essentially stupid, trying to controversialize Katie's appointment.
Katie Blankenberg was announced as director of the Office of Information Policy last week.
among open records advocates and former government FOIA lawyers that Blinkenberg may favor document production to Trump supporting causes and that the office is turning away from stable nonpartisan leadership.
And Bloomberg highlights that prior to President Trump turning the position into a political appointment, there had only been, I think, two different OIP directors over 30 years, which is... at least from my perspective, an indictment of the office as opposed to something reassuring about so-called stability.
And so Katie is in a position now to reform, as I note, transparency operations at the Justice Department and government-wide.
Now, supposedly she has to recuse herself, according to the report, from Judicial Watch matters, which I think I'm sure is going to be overly conservative, because why should she have to recuse herself from all Judicial Watch matters? I'm not quite sure.
why that would be the case, but that's the way the so-called ethics system works in Washington, D.C.
They come up with fake rules to manage fake issues in order to suppress individuals from doing what they know how to do best, which is to work on, in this case, transparency and disclosure.
So here we have someone who, for the first time, comes from what is called the requester community, the people who request under FOIA.
And what is the reaction of the lib media and the leftists that run it? Oh, we should be nervous about it.
Even if she has no ability to work on Judicial Watch cases, I know her efforts on behalf of transparency, given her record here, will be stellar, at least as best she can get it done within the leviathan that is the Justice Department.
What is Judicial Watch's loss is America's gain with our colleague Katie Bleichenberg now going and now being at the Justice Department as head of the Office of Information Policy.
But she's got a lot of work to do, and of course, just because Katie's there doesn't mean we're gonna stop suing the Justice Department or other agencies for records and demanding answers, and nor does it mean the courts aren't gonna stop demanding answers.
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