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28 Jul 2009 // Washington, D.C. - Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) participated in a status hearing Tuesday in U.S. District Courthouse Courtroom 24A in CREW v. U.S. Dep’t of Homeland Security, for which CREW is seeking, under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), White House records of visits by top health care executives in an effort to learn the extent to which these industry players may have influenced the administration’s health care policy. More»

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19 Jun 2009 // Washington, D.C. – Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) argued yesterday in U.S. District Courthouse in Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington v. U.S. Dep’t of Justice, for which CREW is seeking, under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), a copy of the interview former Vice President Dick Cheney gave to the FBI as part of the criminal investigation into the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson’s covert CIA identity. More»

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JUDGE UPHOLDS NARA WITHOLDINGS

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6 May 2008 // Late last night, in response to an order of the court in CREW v. EOP, the White House filed a third declaration of Office of Administration Chief Information Officer Theresa Payton in which the White House admitted, among other things, that it has no backup tapes for White House emails for the period March 1, 2003 through May 22, 2003.

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