These Federal Officers Wield the Power of Transparency
Ask the US government for public records, and your request will go to a federal employee who holds the keys to what gets released and what doesn’t. Ja...
What to Expect When You’re Expecting the Epstein Files
The new Epstein Files Transparency Act requires the government to release a trove of documents from its Jeffrey Epstein investigations – minus whateve...
To Crack Wu-Tang Album's Secrets, FOIA FOIA Y'All (Feat. Open Mike Eagle)
Exclusivity was the point of Wu-Tang Clan's Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. Only one copy was produced. A few minutes of it were played -- once -- in pub...
Waiting for Doge
Earlier this year, newly minted young workers from the Department of Government Efficiency slashed USAID spending and hobbled the US Institute of Peac...
Our Deep Dive for White House Records Starts in the Toilet
In August 2022, on the day the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago to recover files from Donald Trump's first term, another allegation was swirling around – that pr...
A Jeffrey Epstein Money Probe Stayed Hidden for 17 Years. We Found It.
How did Jeffrey Epstein make his money? How did he spend it? In exclusive reporting, Jason Leopold reveals that federal prosecutors followed Epstein’s...
How Russian Tricksters Duped the US Fed Chief (feat. Josh Gondelman, Katherine Blanford and Adam Gilbert)
One morning in April 2023, investigative reporter Jason Leopold wakes to a wild bit of news. According to a video released by a duo of Russian prankst...
Getting the Real Russia Report (feat. Kyle Kinane)
When Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on the investigation into Russian election interference finally landed, many key passages were redacted f...