John A. Jenkins

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More Danger for an Indian Tycoon

FOIAengine: Requests Signaled Trouble for Guatam Adani Guatam Adani, India’s most powerful tycoon and a close ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, knows what it’s like to stare death in...

The Agony Around Ecstasy

FOIAengine: Media Requests Signaled Issues for a “Party Drug” Going Mainstream With 153 clinical trials to assess whether the party drug known as Ecstasy can help patients suffering from Post...

Rocky Road to a Smoke-Free Future

FOIAengine: Hundreds of Requests About FDA’s Tobacco Regulation With cigarette makers battling for market dominance in a “smoke-free future,” legal and marketing battles are raging – and recent Freedom of...

A Blizzard of FOIA Requests from Heritage Foundation

FOIAengine:  How the Project 2025 Personnel Database Gets Built As the presidential election nears, we’ve been tracking the opposition-research strategies of both major parties.  Last week, we examined recent Freedom...

DNC’s Opposition Research Dragnet

FOIAengine: Latest Requests About Vance Target More Companies The Democratic National Committee’s latest Freedom of Information Act requests reveal an expanded effort to dig up details about possible federal investigations...

The Glomar Hustle

FOIAengine Explores the Widespread Use of “Neither Confirm Nor Deny” By John A. Jenkins We’re taking a look this week at a frequently used Freedom of Information Act exemption that isn’t...