we don't want to cover up anything and that's why we have constantly pushed this freedom of information's why the american public probably knows more about the internal aspects of the creation of my parents' prosecution than they do about any other major case, and so i'm quite proud that. peter: i want to show some video from december of 2016. here it is. >> 53 years ago, i delivered a short letter to president eisenhower. today, after over 40 years of research and struggle, we are sharing with president obama the fruits of that struggle, and once again, asking for presidential action. >> my brother, with the letter he presented to the white house at this spot in june 1953, gave president eisenhower the chance to pass that test. eisenhower failed it. but we hope president obama will demonstrate his compassion and decency and pass that test now. peter: michael meeropol, what were we watching? michael: rob had come up with the idea, probably about four years earlier, that based on the information we had, there were grounds for a declaration of exoneration of our parents and i agree with h

a beacon of freedom of information created as the country was coming out of nearly 70 years of one party rule. and it isn't just journalist or researchers that have access to it. every mexican citizen could request information. chief among the concerns around the disappearance of this organization is what will happen to the billions of files housed and their archives and servers, and which amounts more than 20 years of information requested by the mexican public . in fact, we're not even allowed inside this room for many of those files are kept. that's how seriously they take the protection of this information. the president of the nice spoke to, i'll just be your hours before the senate vote. any ne, not the competitor. i'm on there is nothing comparable to in i, in the well developed countries with advanced democracies look to the mexican model when it comes to transparency. it is legally and institutionally robust. it's been effective and bring some order to this country and also, and fights and corruption of that old of and still the ruling party says it has a mandate to introduce st

that's why we constantly push this freedom of information. rican public probably knows more about the internal aspects of the creation of my parents prosecution then they do about any other major case. and so i am quite proud of that. see what i want to show some video from december of 2068. here it is. >> is 63 years ago i delivered a short letter to president eisenhower at these gates. today after over 40 years of research and struggle, or fury. once an action. my brother with the literary percentage of the white house at this spot 1953 gave president eisenhower the chance to pass that test. eisenhower failed it. but, we hope president obama will demonstrate his compassion and indecency and pass that test now. >> michael meeropol what we watching? >> robert come up with the idea probably about four years earlier based on the information we had there were grounds for a declaration of exoneration of her parents. i agreed with him and we worked on a campaign ultimately collected 60000 signatures. we modeled it on with the governor of massachuse

yeah, i wrote a considerable amount about that and the way i wrote about it was by getting freedom of information act documents from the fbi i in other agencies. and then what they show is that the israelis throughout the summer of 2016 had been the dealer directly interfere with the election by trying to get to donald trump, to agree to a number of things that netanyahu won a. and in order to, to get that these relays were basically offering intelligence to the trump campaign . and he had a lot of this came from documents that were released by the f b. i documents that work. transcripts of conversations between the is really agent and a roger stone who is very close to uh, uh, trump, but during that campaign, so it was a direct uh connection between the is really intelligent and uh, and i actually net and young personally. and donald trump, for just doing the proven liar about julia, the son sure. assigned you as being on this show as regard to when he took asylum in the ecuadorian embassy in london. but then you'd think then, with the power of netanyahu to subvert democracy in the united states

the government says are expensive and corrupt. freedom of information act of a say, the closure of one of them. the national institute for transparency is especially worrying leon or has more now from mexico the it to journalism. i noticed in his colleagues more than a year of relentless digging to expose one of the biggest corruption scandals in mexican history. the government had invested millions of dollars in public funds through the creation of big companies and what became known as the master scam to prove their findings, journalists made more than $500.00 freedom of information requests to mexico's institute for transparency or n i. c. normally that single product that without this transparency tool, we would never have known about this most of scam. and many other such cases. i think it is a key part of mexican democracy. but not according to the mexican senate, which voted on thursday to close down the institute along with 6 other independent and deduce the government of the president cloudy. a shame bound says these organizations are corrupt and inefficient and wants them to

yeah, i wrote a considerable amount about that and the way i wrote about it was by getting freedom of information act documents from the fbi i in other agencies. and then what they show is that the israelis throughout the summer of 2016 had been built directly interfere with the election by trying to get to donald trump, to agree to a number of things that netanyahu wanted. and in order to get that, these relays were basically offering intelligence to the trump campaign. and he had a lot of this came from documents that were released by the f b. i documents that work, transcripts who conversations between the is really agent and a roger stone who is very close to uh, uh, trump, uh, during that campaign. so it was a direct uh connection between the is really intelligent and uh and i actually net and young personally, and donald trump for just doing improving liar about julian. hassan. sure. assigned you as being on this show as regard to when he took his violin. when the ecuadorian embassy in london, but then you'd think then with the power of netanyahu to subvert democracy in the united states an

a beacon of freedom of information created as the country was coming out of nearly 70 years of one party rule. and it isn't just journalist or researchers that have access to it. every mexican citizen could request information. chief among the concerns around the disappearance of this organization is what will happen to the billions of files housed in their archives and servers, and which amounts more than 20 years of information requested by the mexican public . in fact, we're not even allowed inside this room were many of those files are kept. that's how seriously they take the protection of this information. the president of the nice spoke to, i'll just be your hours before the senate vote. any, ne, nothing compared to time, and there was nothing comparable to n. i in the well developed countries with advanced democracies looks to the mexican model when it comes to transparency. it is legally and institutionally robust. it's been effective and bring some order to this country. and also it and fights and corruption of that old of and still the ruling party says it has a mandate to intr

a beacon of freedom of information created as the country was coming out of nearly 70 years of one party rule. and it isn't just journalist or researchers that have access to it. every mexican citizen could request information. chief among the concerns around the disappearance of this organization is what will happen to the billions of files housed and their archives and servers, and which amounts more than 20 years of information requests by the mexican public . in fact, we're not even allowed inside this room. when many of those files are kept, that's how seriously they take the protection of this information. the president of the nice spoke to, i'll just be your hours before the senate vote email any ne, not the competitor i'm on. there is nothing comparable to in i, in the well developed countries with advanced democracies looks to the mexican model when it comes to transparency. it is legally and institutionally robust. it's been effective and bring some order to this country and also, and fights and corruption of that older than still the ruling party says it has a mandate to intro

but the government says are expensive and corrupt. freedom of information activists say the closure of one of the national institute for transparency is especially wiring. the president called the symbol, came to power promising to continue reforms introduced by have pre the sessa and that as my new i lopez open the door to they got a ya know, has more from mexico city the the it to journalist minute, as dan, his colleagues more than a year of relentless digging to expose one of the biggest corruption scandals in mexican history. the government had invested millions of dollars in public funds through the creation of fate companies and what became known as the master scam. to prove their findings, journalist made more than 500 freedom of information, requested mexico's institute for transparency or n i. c. no, we don't see the product that without this transparency tool, we would never have known about this mazda scam. and many other such cases. i think it is a key part of mexican democracy but not according to the mexican senate, which voted on thursday to close down the institute alon

we made for of information requests and used nhs england date are finding some consultants, as you say, were earning over £200,000 a year in overtime —— we made freedomh is four times their basic pgy- which is four times their basic pay. we found it at least half of hospital trusts there were consultants being paid over £100,000, the average overtime pay was £27,000. this is important because the government is looking to tackle the hospital waiting list backlog by getting more work donein backlog by getting more work done in evenings and weekends, which will require more overtime because consultants are crucial in treating those patients on waiting lists. the british medical— patients on waiting lists. the british medical association is basically saying, we need more doctors? . , basically saying, we need more doctors? ., , ., doctors? that is the bottom line, doctors? that is the bottom line. there _ doctors? that is the bottom line, there is _ doctors? that is the bottom line, there is a _ doctors? that is the bottom line, there is a shortage - doctors? that is the bottom line, there is a shortage of. line, there is a shortage of doctors and the br

freedom of information, freedom of thought. freedom will return to washington dc and rfk jr, to his credit, is the right person to lead this effort at hhs. now, can america to do better on issues like obesity and heart disease and strokes and diabetes? can we get rid of chemicals and hormones in our food like europe? you know, it is time to make america healthy again through accountability and through transparency. now, this will be one of the major themes from the new trump administration freedom from bureaucracy, the freedom to choose for you and your family, the permanent state has become too bloated, too restrictive, too powerful, and it is pushing the american dream out of reach for so many people. but that's all about to change, and not a moment too soon, because america is the last place on earth where your dreams, no matter how big, can still become a reality. a few years ago, critics doubted elon musk and his vision for spacex. oh, after decades of government inaction, well, musk was able to revolutionize high speed sa

. >> i was doing freedom of information requests with the da's office.t took me nearly 16-17 years, and eventually i obtained the victim's cell phone records. the police said that after the cab driver murdered, his cell phone was stolen, and i found hundreds of calls after his death from these guys who were part of a gang called sex, money, murder. i write a letter to the u.s. attorney's office. miraculously, this letter landed on the desk of john malley. >> i'm an investigator with the united states attorney office and i'm assigned to the violent crimes unit. >> a decade earlier, federal investigator john omalley investigated a gang called sex, money, murder, and two of those gang murders confessed to him they were the shooters. john omalley calls multiple times asking about an open homicide. they say we don't have an open cab driver murder on groves avenue. nine years later, eric glisson's letter arrives. >> weenie mentioned when he mentioned the cab driver, i knew the area, and i kept reading the letter. >> he said to himself i know who committed this

we've had to go to freedom of information request and postpone three times refusing to disclose to thelic arrest of migrants at the shelters who committed crimes. we know as of last year, it was 1,200 arrests made and that has certainly skyrocketed because almost every day you read about a crime with a robbery or more heinous crime like rape or even stabbings or murders committed in the city. we want the administration to be transparent and let us know, let the public know the damage you have done by forcing taxpayers to fund the shelters so individuals who are members of gangs and criminals can wreak havoc on the city. >> julie: i want to look at crimes, migrant crime headlines that the people need to read and see to believe. "newsweek," and i quote, "notorious venezuelan gang targeting kids with recruitment drive in new york city. "new york post" venezuelan migrant with ties to tren de aragua after arrested grands with lewd robbery in new york city protester." can we put that up on the screen with this piece of garbage, put up on the screen. this person is proud he is bidding for sys

of the frail. discovered on a ter network which government uses to transfers classified information. utilizing freedom of information act finding out what the government knowns john greenwald saying the u.s. government denied his questions. the government for decades denied interest in ufos, he told me, but the documents he assembled behind-the-scenes a completely different story. contrary to the host of many advocates of transparency the government has been restricting more information since videos in 2017. d.o.d. organization arrow labels documents for the b-7, greenwald said doesn't make sense stating any aero is allowed to not release it. denying existence of aups only to acknowledge them after an appeal was filed. in 2022 no videos, seems strange had three and only those had three but others fire filed by greenwald's group seeking out more places uaps might be hiding. 2022 navy admitted photographs existed denied request saying the request of videos contained sensitive information that are classified and exempt from disclosure. d.o.d. will deny things on a monday, admit to it on a friday said gre

department of homeland security after the agency refused the disclose a freedom of information requestould change under the trump administration to make life a little more uncomfortable for the duke of sussex. stu. stuart: thanks so much, ashley. sill ahead, jen psaki admits the democrats have no leader. watch this. >> i think democrats are in the wilderness as you just said before. there is no clear leader of the party. joe biden is going to be out of office shortly are. kamala harris just lost the election. stuart: so where does the party go from here? even further left? how about that? possibility. >>> a restaurant owner in new york says he only carries one fork in each of his stores. we'll introduce you to that small business owner is and tell you why he's so averse to cutlery. that's next. we cover it all. ♪ ♪ get ready for the holidays. ♪s it is a celebration ♪ ♪ what does a good investment opportunity look like? at t. rowe price we let curiosity light the way. asking smart questions about opportunities like ai. and how the industries born to support ai might better support us al

and as i mentioned earlier, i filed a freedom of information requests, mostly with the navy and the marine corps. and they sent me hundreds of pages of his personnel files. there's also something called the korean war project, started by a father and son, have cataloged every squadron and unit and every branch of the military during the korean war. and they have that source. so it was easy for me to access so a lot of different avenues and then yeah for the people the three pilots who i was able to track down i you know people were interested in their stories. the articles had written about them in the marine corps leatherneck magazine. so i tracked them down and people were it's something i've learned during the course of writing these five books is that if you tell people you're writing about them and it's not a hit job. and it's you're telling a new angle. they're usually pretty open to talking about it, talking about their past, and sharing their history. because does don't forget, there's another side to ted williams i'm sure you have some internal information about that kind of tende

mike howell said they have filed some 65,000 freedom of information request across government agenciesin emails between federal workers and documents about federal workers. mike howell with heritage said they are not working directly with donald trump's team but there is to help identify bureaucrats they deem partisan. their top priority is to target people across homeland security and justice departments as well as the fbi who they think are sympathetic to things like black lives matter protesters, who have worked on diversity or inclusion projects or who worked on cases against the january 6 rioters. there focused on civil servants were carrying out president biden's policy priorities. they are hoping to flag for the incoming trump administration anyone they call untrustworthy despite this being the nature of civil servants jobs which is to carry out any president's agenda guard list of their political affiliation. amna: some of the voices, we heard some fear about wholesale gutting of federal agencies and departments. mr. trump himself had said he would like to abolish that educatio

that is freedom of information act requests. searching through the emails of federal employees, trying to stances, using getting into debates about elon musk or arguing for climate change or die policies. other people have been searching through public records like campaign finance reports or linkedin biographies to try to find evidence of partizans in the federal government. it's interesting in the department of transportation for example, there have been 1600 foia requests in the last year more than 1100 of them are coming from just the heritage foundation alone. that conservative group that is trying to help donald trump build this roadmap for finding partizans in his government. fred that's quite fascinating. all right steve contorno, thank you so much. all right. joining me right now to talk more about these developments with trump's transition, julie grace brufsky. she's a congressional reporter for axios. and the coauthor of the axios. hill leaders newsletter. julie grace, great to see you. >> great to see you too. >> all

as i said, this is the third in a series of lawsuits that we have under the freedom of information actut, what is the government infrastructure capacity right now and what are the ways in which donald trump is going to exploit that capacity and exceed its bounds in ways that are going to violate fundamental civil-rights. we saw, during his first presidency, that in the deportation infrastructure, he had privately run airplane -- airline companies, deporting immigrants, shackled for 48 hours at a time. the government of columbia refused to take people back, because they found out that these privately run companies were shackling women and children on deportation flights. that is what the lawsuit is aimed at and they have two others we have filed in order to find out what the u.s. detention capacity is currently and what the deportation capacity is currently. step one, find out what donald trump is going to do, step two, predict where he's going to be violating the u.s. laws and fundamental civil-rights in order to ram 1 million people a year through the deportation system. >> please do.

learned that for the past couple of years they have been blanketing the federal agencies with freedom of information requests and asking specifically for emails of federal workers trying to find them using what they believe are partisan terms. >> and this includes climate change or certain dei terms, as well as elon musk and some of his names for some of his companies. and what they are trying to do is find who in the government is potentially someone who might be disloyal to the incoming president, and they want to build out a list of people who he could potentially let go of when he intends, when he executes this mass purges of civil servants that he is promised that he will do now. it is not clear yet whether the incoming trump administration is aware of their efforts, although the people involved in this work believe they are and they have from my understanding, sent about 65,000 requests over the recent years to these federal agencies and have gotten back thousands of pages of documents that they intend to help utilize to find who in the federal government may not be loyal to donald trump and h

this is a foia lawsuit, freedom of information act.ho will transport migrants, either those who are arrested and transported inside this country or those companies who are doing the charter flights to deport them. they say it's because american taxpayers need to know how their money is being spent on this operation. >> all right. so, if they -- >> -- operation, we will prioritize public safety threats and national security threats, because they pose the biggest danger to the united states. and we're going to take the handcuffs off i.c.e. i.c.e. knows who they're looking for. secretary mayorkas has told them to tone down the arrests. >> so, katy, that's tom homan, as you know, trump has named him to be his border czar at the white house. what we have to point out here. i've been out with i.c.e. before. they are arresting fugitives. when i speak to the director of i.c.e., they say they need more money. that's something that could have come through that border security bill that we know that trump stymied earlier this year. all of this be

the aclu says it sought the records in august through a freedom of information act request, but ice officialsled to respond. and now the aclu alleges in its lawsuit that because of trump's victory, quote the need for the records requested is especially urgent. these mass deportation plans raise serious concerns about operational feasibility, their impact and the potential for continued and increased serious abuses and danger. on ice, air flights, ice tells cnn that it does not comment on ongoing or pending litigation in response to a request for comment. joining us now is cecilia director of the aclu. cecilia, thank you so much for being with us. what specific information are you seeking about ice, air and why of aclu government transparency lawsuits. >> as we prepare for an expected flood of civil rights violations by the trump administration. this current lawsuit that we filed yesterday is, as you said seeking records relating to this shadowy network of privately run airlines and other transportation providers that the government has been using to transport people who've been deported, orde

put out about 60,000 65,000 requests for information from government agencies through the freedom of information act, asking for all kinds of records from government employees including their emails and text messages that may include what they believe are evidence of partisanship they have been searching for words like elon musk or climate change or die phrases, trying to find partizans and potentially creating a list of people for donald trump to remove once he takes office. now, the trump campaign and the transition team did not respond as to whether they are aware of this work. but the people involved in these efforts say that they run in the same circles as trump's advisers, and they believe that it will be used by the team when they get into office. >> and then, steve, we're also getting new information on trump's immigration plans that donald trump intends to hit the ground running with a host of executive orders from the moment he gets in, trying to make good on his immigration promises. >> let me walk you through some of what that would entail. it would include expanding detention facili

to be in decline political freedom has plummeted to a 24 year low treatment by a world wide curtailment of civil liberties. restrictions on freedom of expression and information and a decrease to the number of free and fair elections. data from the embassy shows this decline is not specific to one region but is truly present throughout the world. including north america and western europe. in this context nearly 50% of the worlds population has already castro will cast about in a national election this year. the largest number in history. and so with authoritarian trends on the rise, democracy is on the line in many of these cases. this year has already shown us all five of the spectrum from peaceful and fair elections in taiwan and south africa to authoritarian leader refusing to release stranglehold power in venezuela. it's more important than ever to promote democracy at home and abroad. that's the heart of american foreign policy. the bureaus democracy human rights and labor at the state department plays a crucial role in the american efforts to protect and promote freedom, democracy and human rights. i'm especially delighted to introduce the bureaus newl

of the frame. the person discover thee video thet secure internet protocol router network which the dod uses to transmit classified information. a leading uap researchers who utilize the freedom of information act to find out the government knows, jon greenwald told me last year u.s. government had been increasingly denying his request for uap information but he isng been dog foia request for 27 years has an archive of 3 million pages. the government has for decades denied any interest in ufos he told me the documents he has assembled show behind the scenes was a completely different story. contrary to the hopes of many advocates of transparency the governments constricting more information since that leak of videos in 2017. dod organization arrow has been labeling many documents of the b7 exemption greenwald said does not make any sense. there stating anything arrow does involvement law enforcement investigation allows arrow to not release it. greenwell says dod is denied the existence and records on multiple occasions only to acknowledge that after an appeal was filed. he added the systems command march 2022 stated they found no additional uap videos seem strange they had t

and it was a lot of talk about the freedom of speech and the flow of information and how the so called democratic west seems very determined to constantly frustrate those 2 concepts. i mean, russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman murray is a harvest, said that that in combination with western propaganda constitutes the main reason why many people don't know what's actually going on in the ukraine conflict with tradition at the monsters. west and propaganda has blog. the lesson public's ability to get to firsthand information. it has blocked the ability of politicians in the west to make the right decisions. it has blogged the possibility, not only for the west, but also for the international community as a whole, to understand what is happening around ukraine. and of course, these sanctions apply to our network r t, as well. our studios were closed across europe effectively banding. any alternative opinions, but despite all that, censorship parties influence across the continent continues to expand as we prepare to open broadcast an african languages and new hosts. joining us from the c

what else is being said that this ongoing for well, there was a lot of talk about freedom of speech and the flow of information and how the so called democratic west seems almost always determines to frustrate those 2 things, i mean, uh, the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman marie is a heart of a said that that and in combination with western propaganda actually constitute one of the main reasons why many people don't know what's actually going on. and the ukraine conflict with america, not the monster's less than propaganda, has blocked the west and public's ability to get to firsthand information. it has blocked the ability of politicians and the west to make the right decisions. it has blog, the possibility not only for the west, but also for the international community as a whole, to understand what is happening around ukraine. and of course, the sanctions apply to our network r t as well. our studios were closed across europe effectively banding. any alternative opinions on russia and ukraine conflict and this is something that our editor in chief margarita c. manion talked about at length at this, rus

there the origins of this, a russia africa forum discussing press journalistic freedoms and the general flow of information. just quickly imongary to that, saying that all to you is a mass media, a mass cooperation channel. or she did say that american and european sanctions against all to you have only increased attention to this channel. also you did have bureaus and washington and london and elsewhere. but now they close. ready there and all the attention is being redirected to africa. we're going to be broadcasting in african languages all to setting up for bureaus on the content and right now. but she said that the, the effort, confident is still dealing with old western ghost of colonialism. but as she said, russia has always been a study friend for africa and supporting it and said of using it. i rush, i'd never acted like a colonial power and it's friendship with africa. meantime, she was saying anything linked to why fi is seemingly blocked by a so called western deep state, or it's an intel apparatus. i should say the seemingly a draw in a, in a somewhat in the sense of ashima. she drew, she drew

first and most pressing barrier that i think dennett and sanger saw was pushing for freedom of speech so that methods informedction, even so that doctors could incorporate birth control into their medical training. it wasn't really part of it. you had to be kind of an activist doctor and pursue that knowledge if you wanted to be familiar with and prescribe birth control later on. you know, i, i didn't study the span of time just before roe or when griswold v connecticut the legal decision in 1965 that gave all married couples the right to contraception. and that was extended in 1972 to the unmarried as well. but there is a rhetoric scholar named jessica ferguson when i read her book as part of my research. she talks about reading through the griswold decision and the number of times the word wife appears and how the preservation and bolstering of marriage becomes paramount in the reproductive rights movement. how family planning becomes something that belongs in this privileged sphere of the household. and the relationship between husband and wife. so if i was going to explain it, i think i would try to draw

report itself, the crisis that there is with drones now, probably dabbling in nature from that freedom of informationse in recent years? it is no doubt, it _ doubling. it has got worse in recent years? it is no doubt, it has - doubling. it has got worse in recent years? it is no doubt, it has got - years? it is no doubt, it has got worse. years? it is no doubt, it has got worse- we _ years? it is no doubt, it has got worse. we are _ years? it is no doubt, it has got worse. we are actually - years? it is no doubt, it has got worse. we are actually seeing l years? it is no doubt, it has got - worse. we are actually seeing prison is awash with drones on a regular basis, dropping drugs, mobile phones, things to order, there is big money in this because organised crime gangs are totally involved in it. ~ crime gangs are totally involved in it. . crime gangs are totally involved in it. i , i , i, it. we saw the pictures from guernsey — it. we saw the pictures from guernsey where _ it. we saw the pictures from guernsey where it _ it. we saw the pictures from guernsey where it seems i it. we saw the pictures

guest: because of the first amendment that protects freedom of speech and generally speaking false information is protected. the main exception is for defamation. if you knowingly or recklessly make a false statement that is injurious to someone's reputation, you could be held civilly or criminally liable for defamation. but in general, the supreme court has held that false statements are protected by the first amendment. host: all right, dada announcer: president of candidates had been visiting the battleground states. donald trump is expected to speak to voters shortly. he begins his remarks we will bring you live coverage on c-span. democratic vice presidential nominee governor tim walz spoke to voters in wisconsin on the people of election day. introduced by his wife, gwen.

guest: because of the first amendment that protects freedom of speech and generally speaking false information is protected. the main exception is for defamation. if you knowingly or recklessly make a false statement that is injurious to someone's reputation, you could be held civilly or criminally liable for defamation. but in general, the supreme court has held that false statements are protected by the first amendment. host: all right, "washington j" continues. host: we joined by benjamin hovland, u.s. election assistance commission chair. welcome to the program. guest: it is great to be here. host: start by telling us about the election assistance commission program. guest: we are of small federal agency prayed by the help america vote act of 2000 two which was congress's response to the florida 2000 election and we were designed to be independent bipartisan agency. we have four mission areas. we certify voting equipment, we distribute grants to the states from congress, mostly those have been around security grants in recent years. we do a survey of how elections are administered across t