Tonight I speak with Christine Massey, grand master of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), who discovered this week that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), overseen by Robert F Kennedy Jr, is shutting down the FOIA office. Toward the end of the discussion, I talk about the greatest (until Massey) work done by a citizen under the federal FOIA — which was Carol van Strum unearthing the transcript of the “Howard Johnson’s secret meeting” between pesticide manufacturers and government officials who regulate them. Here is the full story — Chiron, Key to the Gemstone File — and it is wild.
Author: Eric F Coppolino
Published at: 2025-05-03 21:30:53
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