Podcast appearances and mentions of Jason Leopold

To mark his first hundred days in office, President Trump signed three executive orders related to immigration. On this week's On the Media, the powerful database that can help I.C.E. track down and deport people. Plus, the dramatic fight for power over Rupert Murdoch's media empire.[01:00] Host Brooke Gladstone talks with Jason Koebler, co-founder of 404 Media, about how a surveillance company is supplying ICE with a powerful database to identify and deport people with minor infractions or certain characteristics.[20:57] Host Micah Loewinger speaks with Jason Leopold, a senior investigative reporter at Bloomberg and writer of the newsletter “FOIA Files,” about the Trump administration's attacks on Freedom of Information Act offices at the CDC and FDA, and what they mean for the future of government transparency.[31:50] Brooke talks with McKay Coppins, a staff writer at The Atlantic, about the remarkable, extensive interviews he conducted with members of the Murdoch family — particularly James Murdoch and his wife Kathryn. (Rupert and his eldest son, Lachlan, declined to participate.) Plus, how the HBO show “Succession” influenced the family's fight over the future of their own media empire.Further reading:Inside a Powerful Database ICE Uses to Identify and Deport People, by Jason KoeblerTrump Filed a FOIA Request. We FOIAed His FOIA, by Jason LeopoldGrowing Up Murdoch: James Murdoch on mind games, sibling rivalry, and the war for the family media empire, by McKay Coppins On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.

Jason Leopold has been dubbed the "FOIA Terrorist" by the government. I don't like the word terrorist, so I call him the FOIA Master... He writes the FOIA Files for Bloomberg News, where he continues breaking news. Jason's work is truly important. I caught up with him a few days ago after our last conversation was delayed due to the LA fires.We have a few minutes left at the end, so I'm also sharing my interview with Craig Unger, author of the book American Kompromat recorded in 2021 when it was released. It's about how Donald Trump is a Russian asset. He'll join us live tomorrow...

Well, the bad news is that I got a text from Jason Leopold at 3:30 this morning explaining that the situation near his home in LA has gotten much worse and that they have to leave. The good news is that they're evacuating and getting to safety, and we'll be able to reschedule Jason for when he's safe and sound, hopefully back home. It just so happens that there's a lot of news to cover today, so it'll just be us and a bunch of audio and video... The DoJ did release Jack Smith's report on The Convicted Felon's attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election just after midnight last night/this morning. The bottom line, according to Smith, is that Trump would have been convicted at trial. We'll get a better analysis on that from Marcy Wheeler on Friday, but we'll talk a bit about it. I spent four hours that I'll never get back this morning watching Pete Hegseth's Senate Armed Forces Commitee hearing on his confirmation to be Secretary of Defense. It's just so surreal. I'll share some of the more interesting exchanges. And Spocko will join me to add to the commentary!

Jason Leopold, an investigative reporter with Bloomberg News, is known for his aggressive use of the Freedom of Information to research stories. He discusses the need for greater transparency in public records and his views on the future of FOIA in U.S.Visit the It's All Journalism website to find more episodes like this one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jason Leopold, an investigative reporter with Bloomberg News, is known for his aggressive use of the Freedom of Information to research stories. He discusses the need for greater transparency in public records and his views on the future of FOIA in U.S. Visit the It's All Journalism website to find more episodes like this one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We witnessed history yesterday, and it streamed live right here. As our regular hour together was just finishing up yesterday, VP Kamala Harris and MN Gov Tim Walz took the stage at a massive rally in Philadelphia PA in their new roles as Democratic nominee for President introducing for the first time her running mate. It was magical. And we're just getting started. We'll begin the show by reflecting on this amazing moment! At the bottom of the hour we'll be joined by my old friend Jason Leopold, the FOIA Master! He needs our help in decoding some of the newest documents he got thanks to one of hundreds of his FOIA requests. And I have a few questions for him too about the plea deal with KSM and two other 9-11 terrorists still being held at Guantanamo Bay... and the sudden and very quick revoking of the deal by Sec of Defense Lloyd Austin...

Jason Leopold, a senior reporter with Bloomberg News, has literally been getting under the skin of government bureaucracies for decades. His weapon: The Freedom of Information Act, enacted by Congress in the mid-1960s because the feds, well, had an insidious propensity to bury embarrassing, or even illegal, acts under layers of official secrecy. Over the years the law has been strengthened—not that it's stopped the government from continuing its bad behavior. That's where Leopold, a multiple prize winning, much admired, relentless digger, comes in. The 55-year-old journalist is a legend for forcing the government to release explosive documents ranging from Hillary Clinton's secret email server to CIA torture procedures to Donald Trump's misrouting, should we say, of highly classified documents from the White House to Mar-a-Lago. For his efforts, the FBI labeled him an “FOIA terrorist,” a moniker he cheerfully welcomes.May 1st marked the seventh anniversary of his most favorite FOIA triumph, the release of details on a threatening telephone call a person imitating a Mafia thug—all but certainly Trump—made to a lawyer representing investors going after Trump after the failure of his Atlantic City casino. It seemed like a good day to ring Jason up.Jason Leopoldhttps://twitter.com/JasonLeopoldhttps://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/foia-files Follow Jeff Stein on Twitter:https://twitter.com/SpyTalkerFollow SpyTalk on Twitter:https://twitter.com/talk_spySubscribe to SpyTalk on Substackhttps://www.spytalk.co/Take our listener survey where you can give us feedback.http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=BffJOlI7qQcF&ver=short

The US public's trust in the media, and the government, is markedly low. A recent Gallup poll found only about 30 percent of Americans trust the media — and Pew Research found only 16 percent trust their government. Bloomberg's Jason Leopold is using records to try to change that. He's filed over 9,000 requests through the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA — a Cold War era law meant to ensure the right to transparency from the US government. On this week's Big Take DC, host Saleha Mohsin and Jason dissect the FOIA process, the challenges of sifting through redacted documents from secretive government entities and the stories FOIA records have brought to light. Subscribe to the FOIA Files newsletter: https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/foia-filesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The US public's trust in the media, and the government, is markedly low. A recent Gallup poll found only about 30 percent of Americans trust the media — and Pew Research found only 16 percent trust their government. Bloomberg's Jason Leopold is using records to try to change that. He's filed over 9,000 requests through the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA — a Cold War era law meant to ensure the right to transparency from the US government. On today's episode, Big Take DC host Saleha Mohsin and Jason dissect the FOIA process, the challenges of sifting through redacted documents from secretive government entities and the stories FOIA records have brought to light. Subscribe to the FOIA Files newsletter: https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/foia-filesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today ushers in the first day of Spring! It's only fitting that it's also the first day of the rebooted Bruce SPRINGsteen tour, and it's kicking off in Phoenix. It is Bruce so of course I'll be there. Yes, I'm giddy. There's nothing like a Springsteen concert! I'm glad today's guest is a fellow music lover. Jason Leopold's seeing him in LA on April 4... but he's not here to talk Bruce today. These days the man who's been dubbed the "FOIA Terrorist" by our government just launched "The FOIA Files," a weekly newsletter through Bloomberg News, for whom Jason is now working. I had invited Jason on the show to promote the newsletter. But when I reached out to him about it last week, he was in an undisclosed location working on a big story, using only burner phones. He'll give us the scoop today... but it has to do with the story I told you about on Friday with Marcy Wheeler about the FBI agents in Florida who served Trump the search warrant at Mar A Largo and were not very happy about it. (Houston I think we have a big problem). --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nicolesandler/message

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I have a story to tell you about that bastion of free speech, Pacifica Radio's ailing Los Angeles station KPFK. They tried to hire me as Program Director a few years ago. I turned them down because it was a cluster fuck, among other reasons. A few months ago, the interim Program Director got in touch and offered me a weekly show. I agreed and was to begin this Friday, yes, in two days. This morning the interim General Manager called to tell me they "won't be moving forward" with it. Needless to say, I'm stunned and livid. I'll tell more during the show. Funny, today I have Jason Leopold scheduled to talk about his big FOIA scoop on the White House cocaine. We'll talk about that, but I'll also ask him to use his FOIA skills to call KPFK out on the bullshit excuse they gave me. Yes, this show will be raw. After all, it's online only and I know how to protect a license over the air. I've done it for over 40 years! So, strap in. Should be fun.

We spent yesterday's show waiting for the official word on the third indictment for the former guy. Of course, Jack Smith ambled up to the microphones about a minute after I signed off. That's ok... we were all preoccupied with reading the 45-pages detailing the charges against the wanna-be dictator. Today's guest wasn't booked to specifically talk about this story, but Jason Leopold certainly has a FOIA in the fight... Dubbed by some in the government the "FOIA Terrorist," I prefer FOIA Master or even better FOIA King. Jason's current employer Bloomberg News released a beautiful video about Jason's work a couple of weeks ago, reminding me that it had been too long since he's joined us... so he's here today...

Pras Michel, the famed rapper and founding member of The Fugees, goes on federal trial later this month. The US government has charged him with numerous crimes related to his dealings with the fugitive Malaysian businessman allegedly at the center of one of the largest financial scandals in history. Michel maintains he's innocent. This real-life international tale of intrigue involves a long cast of characters, including A-list Hollywood celebrities, the Chinese government, and both the Obama and Trump White Houses. Bloomberg reporters Anthony Cormier, Jason Leopold and Matthew Campbell have captured the whole saga in a story for Businessweek and they join this episode to tell us what they found. Read the story: https://bloom.bg/3ZiFi0W  Listen to The Big Take podcast every weekday and subscribe to our daily newsletter: https://bloom.bg/3F3EJAK  Have questions or comments for Wes and the team? Reach us at bigtake@bloomberg.net.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Yesterday marked the beginning of the 15-day celebration of the Lunar New Year as we leave behind the Year of the Tiger for the Year of the Rabbit. Billions of people celebrated around the world including in the Southern California city of Monterey Park, where the population is around 65% Asian and Asian-American... a city that's historically safe and consistently ranks as one of the country's best places to live due to its good schools, growing economy, and central location. But a shooter, later identified as a 72-year old man of Asian descent, entered a dance studio and killed 10 people and injured another 10 before fleeing the scene. One the the injured victims died today. The shooter went to another studio in the neighboring community of Alhambra, where two men managed to wrestle his gun away from him. He still managed to escape. But he was surrounded by police in the town of Torrance and on Sunday evening, it was confirmed that the shooter killed himself as police were closing in. This was the 33rd mass shooting so far this year... a year that's only 23 days old. Our guest today is not here to talk about mass shootings, though he probably could. These days, Jason Leopold is doing his reporting for Bloomberg news, but his focus remains on getting the information that the government doesn't release on its own. Jason Leopold has been dubbed the "FOIA Terrorist" by those who have to deal with his never-ending stream of FOIA requests, but I prefer the term FOIA Master, as what he's doing is masterful, not terrorism! I invited Jason on today because it's been a few months... and due to a story published by the NY Post's Page Six of all places, dealing with Morrissey (musician, formerly of The Smiths), the Secret Service and a statement he made about the former guy a few years ago!

In this special episode, we bring you a live taping of the first-ever Brechner Speaker Series, co-hosted by the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information and the Bob Graham Center for Public Service, featuring award-winning investigative reporter Jason Leopold, who has broken some of the top stories of our time using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA.) Nicknamed "the FOIA terrorist" by government officials who are forced to answer his requests, Jason talks about ultimate transparency in government and in his own personal life.  He is the reporter who forced Hillary Clinton's emails to become public, exposed a religion test used by the U.S. Military, and illegal practices by big banks, which became an investigation known as the FinCEN Files. Host, Sara Ganim. Guests, Matt Jacobs, Hub Brown, Jason Leopold. 

Welcome to the first Monday in October. As happens every year on this day, the Supreme Court began a new session. For the first time in history, a Black woman is sitting on the bench as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Ketanji Brown Jackson making her debut today, asking more questions than Clarence Thomas did in the entire decade leading up to Antonin Scalia's death. (And with more substance in her first round of questioning than he ever displayed, but I digress.) With Justice Brown Jackson in place, there are now a record four women on the court. Unfortunately, one of them is as wing-nutty as they come, and she is one of six on that court with extreme right wing views. That said, as much as I look forward to KBJ on the court, I am NOT looking forward to their decisions taking away yet more of our liberties. Our guest today is the FOIA Master himself. Jason Leopold, now in place at Bloomberg News, shared a big surprise on Friday, and it was something he didn't even ask for (probably because none of us knew it had happened). The transcript of an off-the-record oval office meeting, three days before Trump's inauguration, between President Obama and a group described as "progressive columnists". For once, we really are that proverbial fly on the wall!

NOW, TRUMP MUST BE PROSECUTED FOR ESPIONAGE A BLOCK (1:30) The New York Times' blockbuster and a stunning Trump leak of a letter from the National Archives makes it inevitable (2:15) There is no prosecutorial discretion here: if you've stolen MORE THAN 300 CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS THEY HAVE TO PROSECUTE YOU (2:43) And if some are the highest level of classification, you must be prosecuted FOR ESPIONAGE (3:00) The Times also implied there's video of people actually mishandling these documents (3:41) DOJ also isn't sure Trump isn't hiding MORE classified docs at Mar-a-Lago (5:08) None of the crimes mentioned on the search warrant are affected even if Trump somehow DID declassify the papers he stole (5:27) You also don't want to be Christina Bobb right now (6:47) Trump's motion to have a 'Special Master' review everything seized is described as 'Alice In Wonderland' (7:22) and incredibly it contains Trump boasting of how he got a threat relayed to Attorney General Garland (8:37) Judge Reinhart also seems to be leaning against unsealing the search warrant affidavit - in part for Trump's physical safety (9:55) Trump flunky Kash Patel is blaming the Government Services Administration because they haven't gotten around to blaming the moving company yet (10:05) Early Tuesday somebody connected to Trump LEAKED A NATIONAL ARCHIVES LETTER TO TRUMP'S LAWYER and ex-journalist John Solomon posted it (10:30) Archivist Debra Wall has detailed all of Trump's efforts to keep the stolen documents through the first five months of this year (11:07) Wall says Trump tried to claim executive privilege over them! The Biden White House finally agreed to waive any executive privilege (11:49) But Solomon (and presumably Trump) think the mere mention of Biden in the letter will let them paint this as Biden politically attacking Trump (12:09) without realizing that the letter confirms Trump DELIBERATELY held on to the documents and cannot claim some kind of mistake (12:39) And Wall even notes some documents were "Special Access Program materials" - bureaucratic speak of ultra-secret Black Ops programs. Trump is in twice as much trouble as he was before Solomon posted (15:20) They won't listen, but this would be a good time for his supporters to bail out on Trump because it's all indictments from here on in. B BLOCK (19:05) Every Dog Has Its Day: Roxy (20:33) Postscripts To The News: there's a Trump Electoral Fraud scandal too. The Your-Kraken-Is-Showing crowd seems to have illegally disseminated election data to people like friends of Sean Hannity (21:59) Why did The New York Times run a Trump Op-Ed by Rich Lowry when (23:13) it could've just reprinted his self-gratifying assessment of Sarah Palin's wink from 2008? (24:47) Sports: Tom Brady's back. The Masked Singer? Refilled his consecrated ground? (25:17) Bryce Harper's minor league rehab is...SPONSORED? (27:40) Trump, Tim Michels and Russia Ron Johnson compete for Worst Persons honors, with Ron insisting he was only involved in the coup for just "seconds." C BLOCK (32:00) My career stories - Things I Promised Not To Tell - focuses in this episode on the most talented (and most self-destructive) person I've ever worked with. He was a New York and Los Angeles radio news anchor and TV news reporter named Will Spens. He was a genius, but his ability to do what others would not try, eventually destroyed him.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Apologies for being out yesterday. I'm dealing with a Jenga-like tower of crap that keeps falling over on me, figuratively speaking of course. I thought about taking off the rest of the week, but that would make too much sense. And then my friend Jason Leopold finally got the word from his new employer clearing him to come on the air with me. So if Jason's going to be here today, I will too! After BuzzFeed torpedoed its entire award-winning investigative news division, it appears that Bloomberg swooped in and scooped up the whole lot of them. So I'll talk with Jason about his new gig (and Bloomberg's policy of having to go through their publicist every time I want him to come on the air!), and some other developments in stories that he's been covering for the past decade or more... like the killing of al-Zawahiri, missing phone data, erased messages and more, oh my. We'll begin with the latest news, and update on Howie Klein who's usually here on Thursdays, and some actual good news too!

This week: Mike Pompeo is called to testify in a Spanish Court; an unavoidable outcome for the oranges of the Trump Russia probe; some news about a right-wing Flynn unmasking conspiracy theory that has been totally debunked by a report that Jason Leopold was able to obtain through a FOIA request; plus some Sabotage and the Fantasy Indictment League. Follow AG on Twitter: Dr. Allison Gill  https://twitter.com/allisongill https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote https://twitter.com/dailybeanspod Want to support the show and get it ad-free and early? https://dailybeans.supercast.tech/ Or https://patreon.com/thedailybeans How We Win Fund swingleft.org/fundraise/howwewin

“I was not going to be silenced, and the world needed to know.” In their first appearance on a show together, Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards, U.S. Treasury Department whistleblower, and Jason Leopold, investigative reporter who helped bring Edwards' story to the public, discuss their stories. In a conversation with FBI whistleblower Jane Turner, Edwards talks about the wrongdoing she witnessed while working for the Treasury Department's FinCEN division, her decision to come forward and blow the whistle on the illicit activity, and how she went through all the right reporting channels and still ended up serving time in prison. Leopold discusses the impact that Edwards' disclosures had worldwide, his role as a journalist, the FinCEN files, and the sacrifices Edwards made to speak truth to power. Don't miss this powerful episode!Donate to Edwards' GoFundMe fundraiser here. Read parts I, II, III, and IV of Edwards' story on WNN.Listen to the podcast here on WNN or on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Google Podcasts. Subscribe on your favorite platform!

No clever title for this episode. I was toying with "FOIA Terrorist for Hire" or "BuzzFeed Fire Sale" but I figured that the most important part of it is that Jason Leopold is my guest today. Jason has been a senior investigative reporter for BuzzFeed News since 2016. During his time there, he broke a number of huge stories, got nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and solidified his place as the foremost FOIA expert in media today. Despite all of that BuzzFeed has decided to kill off its amazing News section. So I invited Jason on today to celebrate his work... Of course, the phones are open and we'll cover the latest news in the first half hour..

In this episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki discuss Elon Musk's bid to buy Twitter. Support Past Present on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pastpresentpodcast Here are some links and references mentioned during this week's show:  Billionaire Elon Musk made a successful $44 billion bid to acquire Twitter. Niki referred to this Los Angeles Times article about the limits of Elon Musk's “free speech absolutism.” Natalia referenced this New York Times article about billionaire investors in the press. We all drew on this Psyche piece on the history of media ownership and its perils.   In our regular closing feature, What's Making History: Natalia recommended Kendall Taggart, John Templon, Anthony Cormier, and Jason Leopold's Buzzfeed News investigative report, “Profit, Pain, and Private Equity.” Neil shared the launch of the anti-racism publication, The Emancipator. Niki discussed James Pogue's Vanity Fair article, “Inside the New Right, Where Peter Thiel is Placing His Biggest Bets,” and this edition of John Ganz' Substack, Unpopular Front.

We've got a lot to jam into our last hour of the week today. We'll start with Jason Leopold, who has another two FOIA victories that earn him bragging rights. One of them resulted in 10 redacted passages from the Mueller report being made public(!). The other has to do with multiple allegations of CIA personnel and sex crimes involving children. But we'll move to a much more pleasant topic for the second half of the show. Variety's Chris Willman will join us to talk music-- specifically Peter Jackson's epic 8-hour "Get Back" documentary about The Beatles. Since Jason Leopold is, like me, a huge music-phile, he's going to stick around for the Chris Willman interview. The more, the merrier!

In this episode, Jane talks with Jason Leopold, a senior investigative reporter at BuzzFeed News whose notable work includes reporting on the FinCEN Files, a project in collaboration with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists that consisted of thousands of documents pointing to large-scale global financial corruption. The documents were sourced primarily from U.S. Treasury whistleblower Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards, who was sentenced to six months in jail for one conspiracy charge. Leopold discusses his approach to working with whistleblowers and sources and talks about his views on how whistleblowers should go about finding reporters to tell their stories.Read Jane's Whistleblower of the Week profiles on Natalie Edwards on Whistleblower Network News, and listen and subscribe to the podcast on your favorite platform!

The FBI dubbed my friend Jason Leopold a "FOIA Terrorist." It's a label he wears proudly, but it bugs me... because he's not a terrorist. Jason is a hero. Digging deep to uncover the dirt that the powers that be don't want you to see. So I prefer to refer to Jason Leopold as The FOIA Master! And he joins us today. Jason, using his immense power of the pen, filed the paperwork and, in return, was able to get an exclusive look at the six permits issued by Capitol Police to the people who stormed the Capitol on January 6. He'll give us the whole story about his latest scoop. We'll begin with the latest news and maybe even a phone call or two in the first half hour...

The government may have labelled Jason Leopold a FOIA Terrorist, but I prefer to call him a FOIA Master... This week, the project Jason spent two years working on, The FinCen Files investigation has been honored as a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting! This is the second time Jason's work has been a Pulitzer finalist. I thought we needed a hanging and celebrating with Jason day, and today is it. We'll talk about the whistleblower who got the investigation rolling by providing Jason with FinCen documents. We now know her identity: Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards, the U.S. Treasury official who disclosed the financial intelligence documents to BuzzFeed News, was sentenced last week to six months in prison. We'll talk with Jason about that. But we'll start the show with the latest news, and celebrate our new national holiday, Juneteenth!

Jason Leopold was dubbed “the FOIA Terrorist” by the Bush Administration, and the name stuck because Jason appropriated it! He utilizes FOIA better and more effectively than anyone else in the news business. I had scheduled Jason to join us today because it had been a while since we'd spoken, and was pleasantly surprised to awaken this morning to a new scoop from Jason and his FOIA prowess.

I didn't think it was possible after the year we've almost completed, but the news is getting even more weird by the day. Today, we'll examine the rank Republican hypocrisy on display today more than ever, the ongoing acts of sedition and other nonsense Trump is considering, and the role of journalism in protecting Democracy. BuzzFeed News' senior investigative journalist and government-labelled FOIA Terrorist Jason Leopold is our guest today.

Finding true love at any age, conflict resolution at work, and other uses for the middle finger. Also, I speak to investigative reporter and Freedom of Information Act expert Jason Leopold. Listen to the full extended director's cut at luminary.link/secrets. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In *normal* times, the massive FinCEN Files investigation from BuzzFeed News and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists would have been front page news everywhere. But these times are anything but normal. So BuzzFeed News senior investigative reporter Jason Leopold joins us today to explain what's been pushed out of the headlines by a sociopathic president and his fascistic administration trying to steal another Supreme Court seat and another election.

It's been one hell of a week. Nothing shocking there, as it's been a crazy, fucked-up year so far, so why should this week be any different? Florida, where I live, is one of the ugliest COVID-19 hotspots on the planet right now. It's time to change our elected officials to take the DUH out of FloriDUH. Today, I'll speak with Jen Perelman, who's primarying one of our worst, Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Then we'll speak with and salute the man dubbed the "FOIA Terrorist" by our government, Jason Leopold. He's a senior investigative reporter for BuzzFeed News, and just won a huge victory against the government for holding up documents related to the Roger Stone case and others too.

The House Judiciary Committee today held a hearing on racial profiling and police brutality. It's long past due. Senate Republicans have promised their own police reform legislation, though their original deadline of Friday to release their plan has been scrapped. On the other side of the issue is the Dept of Justice, who's fighting incoming on a number of fronts today, which I'll detail during the program. Today's guest is Jason Leopold, senior investigative reporter for Buzzfeed News, who broke the story last week that the DEA was given sweeping new authority to conduct covert surveillance on people protesting the murder of George Floyd, racial profiling and police brutality.

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

We made it to the end of a horrible week that included a brutal Super Tuesday, the end of a number of campaigns, a stock market crash and the global explosion of the coronavirus. We have two great guests today: Jason Leopold of BuzzFeed News whose lawsuit might bring us the unredacted Mueller Report, and OG blogger Heather "Digby" Parton to help me muddle through this crazy week that was!

The release of the torture report was not always a given. The leadership at the CIA hoped it would stay classified and never be released to the public. But Senators Dianne Feinstein, John McCain and Mark Udall risked political fallout to ensure its release to the public.Guests: Former US Senator Mark Udall (D-Colo.), Buzzfeed's Jason Leopold and Stephen Rickard from the Open Society Foundations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After Daniel Jones completed the torture report, the CIA drafted a response. They pushed back against many of the report's fundings. And they went one step further. They hacked into Senate computers and then accused Daniel Jones of being a criminal which sparked a constitutional crisis.Guests: Former US Senator Mark Udall, Buzzfeed's Jason Leopold and The Daily Beast's Spencer Ackerman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's a busy Tuesday. Before we get to our regular Tuesday segment in which @GottaLaff and I shoot the shit about the news and check Twitter for the latest, I'll check in with Jason Leopold of BuzzFeed News. Jason was dubbed a "FOIA Terrorist" by our government for his prodigious success in using the Freedom of Information Act to access information for us. This time, Jason won the release of all the all the background info- including search warrants, subpoenas, emails, letters, memos, interview transcripts and more from the Mueller probe. He joins us today to discuss the significance of this information.

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, troublemaking and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

It's a very busy Wednesday on The Nicole Sandler Show. As usual, we'll get to the latest news of the day including Bernie Sanders' speech on Democratic Socialism, but today's show also features two great guests. Investigative journalist Jason Leopold checks in to update us on the amazing work he's been doing to get the redacted parts of the Mueller report uncovered and more. And Thom Hartmann joins in to talk about his new book, "The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment".

Nicole returns today after a power outage knocked her off the air on Tuesday. BuzzFeed's senior investigative journalist Jason Leopold joins Nicole to talk about his reporting, the attacks on him and his reporting, how Michael Cohen's testimony vindicated him and more.

Nicole begins the show by trying to unpack the latest news. Jason Leopold, senior investigative reporter at BuzzFeed News has been breaking real news about the Mueller investigation, and shares with us his latest.

With the nation's focus on small children being ripped from their parents arms at the border, the world keeps turning and news continues being made. Investigative journalist Greg Palast joins in to tell us about the latest setbacks to Kansas' Kris Kobach's heinous voter-suppressing Crosscheck program. And BuzzFeed Senior Reporter Jason Leopold returns to shine more light on the Trump Russia probe and the general insanity of our time.

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After an update on the day's news, Nicole Sandler welcomes Buzzfeed's Jason Leopold back to the show to discuss his blockbuster story on newly uncovered payments by the Russian embassy and more about the Russia story

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

The news hits just keep on coming. Nicole Sandler attempts to cover as many bases as she can in an hour with today's guests: BuzzFeed News' Jason Leopold and Philadelphia Daily News' Will Bunch

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, troublemaking and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Vice News Senior Investigative Reporter Jason Leopold, dubbed a "FOIA Terrorist" joins Nicole Sandler to talk about his latest FOIA lawsuit, calling for everything pertaining to Donald Trump and more