Trump Admin Hit With Lawsuit For Keeping Survey On FBI Morale Under Wraps
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Alice Ollstein | May 21, 2018 12:40 pm
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A new lawsuit is seeking to force the administration to release the results of the FBIs February-March 2018 climate survey, an anonymous annual review that takes the temperature of worker morale at the agency.
Ben Wittes and Scott Anderson, Brookings Institution fellows and the editors of Lawfare, filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the document in April. (Wittes also is a close personal friend of Comey). On Friday, with the FBI having failed to produce the survey or give justification for the delay within the time period required by FOIA, Wittes and Anderson sued in federal court in Washington D.C. The suit argues that the agency had released the climate surveys every year since 2013, and noted that the public has a high level of interest in how the chaos of the last year has affected the experience of the FBIs rank and file. The bureaus advocates have argued that the frequent attacks on the FBI from Trump and his allies risk undermining employee morale.
The FBI faced many challenges over the past year, following President Trumps decision to fire Director Comey, it reads. The President and his allies have accused specific FBI personnel of skewing investigative results, abusing surveillance authorities, and engaging in a vendetta against the President. The President has also repeatedly attacked the integrity of the FBI and its agents on Twitter.
The lawsuit additionally argues that the public deserves to see the documents because the Trump administrations past claims about FBI morale under Comey were disproven by the release of the 2017 climate survey.
Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/trump-admin-hit-with-lawsuit-for-keeping-survey-on-fbi-morale-under-wraps
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)He has kept scientists from conducting research on climate change and stopped the publishing of the data from their studies to be released to the public. He is also blocking the FBI morale "climate" from being released too. Is this the beginning of fascism?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)We are well past the beginning, sadly.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Puhhhllleeeaaassseee....
.....Will do!
Where the hell has he been
lame54
(35,282 posts)Because they have a common enemy
BobTheSubgenius
(11,562 posts)Why else the stonewalling?