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![This week’s FOIA round-up: Florida midterm recounts spark lawsuits, insanity pleas and recidivism in Oregon, and the CIA considered "truth serum" as a substitute for torture](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2018/11/16/PS.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
This week’s FOIA round-up: Florida midterm recounts spark lawsuits, insanity pleas and recidivism in Oregon, and the CIA considered “truth serum” as a substitute for torture
In this week’s FOIA round-up, lawsuits mount across the Sunshine State amid recounts of three statewide races, and records reveal the Central Intelligence Agency considered subbing torture for “truth serum” interrogations after 9/11. What’s more, Oregon’s Psychiatric Security Review Board claims low recidivism among those acquitted of crimes based on insanity claims, despite internal emails about a study that reveals the opposite.
![FBI’s file on Accuracy In Media is just a bunch of kvetching](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2018/10/23/AIM.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
FBI’s file on Accuracy In Media is just a bunch of kvetching
Accuracy In Media isn’t an organization that MuckRock is particularly fond of, but its Federal Bureau of Investigation file is full of some of our favorite things: debates over what an FBI file actually says and complaints about FOIA denials.
![FBI’s High Visibility Memoranda document FOIA’s greatest hits](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2018/06/27/FBIcov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
FBI’s High Visibility Memoranda document FOIA’s greatest hits
When the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s FOIA office in the Records Management Division prepares to release a file that it deems significant, newsworthy or controversial, it issues what’s known as a High Visibility Memoranda. These memos, circulated to different parts of the Bureau and often to the Director’s Office as well as outside agencies, outline the proposed releases and their possible fallout. A recent release of over 500 pages of these memos serves as a list of files for FOIA requesters to file new requests for so the files can be published online, as well as showing government reactions to the requests themselves.
![In the wake of 9/11, FBI received dozens of tips reporting "suspiciously happy Middle Easterners"](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2017/08/11/IAmAmerican.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
In the wake of 9/11, FBI received dozens of tips reporting “suspiciously happy Middle Easterners”
Documents released to Donald Triplett III contain more than 70 tips from citizens reporting supposed “Muslim celebrations” of the September 11th terrorist attacks to at least six FBI field offices in the days following. Some of these dubious “leads” included “happy Middle Easterners laughing over coffee” the day before, a man expressing fear of anti-Muslim reprisals, and a table at TGI Friday’s that just split some appetizers.
2 Requests
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All documents related to Permit #13-1563 "2 Million Bikers to DC"
Phil Shannon sent this request to the National Park Service of the United States of America
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FOIA request for CDC/NIOSH rules and parameters for 9/11 WTC program
joseph bolanos sent this request to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States of America