Originally published at: Have Government Employees Mentioned Climate Change, Voting or Gender Identity? The Heritage Foundation Wants to Know.
This story first appeared at ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Three investigators for the Heritage Foundation have deluged federal agencies with thousands of Freedom of Information Act requests over the past year, requesting a wide range…
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I really tried to watch the debate, but I just can’t. The Shillbilly (love that!) is going to calmly and convincingly lie his ass off and the so-called liberal media (SCLM) representatives will eat it up with a big ol’ spoon, while demanding perfection from Coach Walz.
I’m following it vicariously through TPM and its faithful commenters. Thank you all!!
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For the government employees who want to protect themselves from the prying eyes of the Heritage Foundation, on climate change they should invoke the name Al Gore with a wink
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So I guess Project 2025 is a real thing after all. You mean Trump lied about it???
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Welcome to MAGA Stasi, where Heritage goons burrow into the lives of others looking for any signs of disloyalty to Dear Leader.
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An analysis of more than 2,000 public-records requests submitted by Aamot, Howell and Jankowski to more than two dozen federal offices and agencies, including the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Trade Commission, shows an intense focus on hot-button phrases used by individual government workers.
Those 2,000 requests are just the tip of the iceberg, Howell told ProPublica in an interview. Howell, the executive director of the Oversight Project, estimated that his group had submitted more than 50,000 information requests over the past two years. He described the project as “the most prestigious international investigative operation in the world.”
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I would not call snooping on worker;s emails in any way prestigious. More like invasion of privacy. I am wondering what phrases would turn up in the emails of these three snoopers. Admiration of Orban or Hitler perchance? Why fire a worker based on phrases used in a potentially private personal email? Is not job performance a much better criteria to use than a worker’s political leanings?
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My sentiments precisely. After watching the prior two, I just couldn’t.
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If I were receiving those requests I would put everything from Heritage in a pile, then work on everyone else’s first. It’s an abuse of the system by putting their requests over everyone else’s, and abuse should not be tolerated.
It’s like cutting off Vance’s mic. It’s how they were taught by Atwater (dead by brain cancer!) and Rove and Reed, suck all the air out of the room so yours is the only voice heard. It’s wrong and should not be acquiesced to. Tb,ss, if you don’t like it, and don’t pretend like it’s just some normal business practice, it isn’t.
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It a battle between True Freedom v. Corrupt FreeDumb!
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I’m so old I remember when heritage was considered conservative but not wacko.
But then I’m so old I was drafted.
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I remember that too but it sure was a long time ago (1A but the lottery dice rolled my way)
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Heritage also used material gathered from a FOIA search to claim that a listening session the Justice Department held with voting rights activists constituted an attempt to “rig” the presidential election because no Republicans were present.
“We tried to include Republican voting rights activists, but we were unable to find any.”
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I was in basic when they called the lottery. My number was something like 242.
MAGASTAPO!! Guess there really is a deep state, it’s just a deep fascist state.
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FIFY.
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The year before I was eligible, my number was 61. But they cancelled the draft the year I turned 19, so I missed it.
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And you didn’t even have to feign bone spurs, nice.
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Tax free to boot.
Watching Maddow the other night, I though – Vance comes not with a noose, but a guillotine Watch: Rachel Maddow lays out why you should care about JD Vance's real agenda
Clearly preparing for the purge to come. As a former civil servant it is difficult to imagine working with that kind of incompetent political BS hanging over my head. The aim is, quite transparently, to hollow out the civil service and replace it with right wing pork barrel.
Welcome back to nineteenth century government.
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