Agreed on the tip of the iceberg. It is mind numbing to think of all the other HHS data and all the other agencies/offices that do the ugliest part of their business while avoiding those pesky FOIA requests.
At the same time, I look with wonder on our country that even allows a FOIA process. What a great country - that is in the process of receiving quite a few course corrections. Most courses were made worse in the 2020-2024 timeframe with lamebrain in office...
They are all Guilty of Conspiracy Evil Crimes Against Humanity Genocide Agendas for Profit while bilking taxpayers with Federal Government Consent Assistance Traitors Internment in Prison
I had a personal experience with FOIA in our local high school. My kids had disabilities and IEPs that were being severely neglected. They were painting me as a helicopter mom when I tried to hold them accountable.
“…apparently you could just fill out an official-looking form and the government [school] was legally obligated to comb through the entirety of its records—emails, memos, internal communications, the behind-the-scenes stuff we weren’t necessarily meant to see…” is true of public schools too.
Except, the director of Special Education knew what I would find, and so acted like she would do me “a favor” by collecting the USB from the data department on my behalf and I could pick it up from her office. 🤨 She had no idea the resourcefulness I had with data. Lol
We discovered she tried to delete all emails from the USB that showed she violated all the medical confidentiality laws, colluded with doctors behind our backs, and interfered with our complaints by conspiring with other staff to cover up the heinous things they did to our kid. We had files that presented strong lawsuits against two doctors too for violating confidentiality laws.
How I noticed was because I recognized the logic she used to search the files for anything with my son’s name in the subject line, but she missed files where it was on an attached document.
She also missed a database file that gave to me EVERY test score by EVERY kid in our district, for three years, and the excel spreadsheet where they actually labeled them “preferential treatment”, “financial supporter” (referring to the child having a parent that donated huge sums to the football field,) and, I kid you not, “hopeless”. 😆 There were more categories, but it was clear any student with an IEP and great potential got thrown into a one size fits all bucket where they would never get the assistance needed to reach that potential.
So she violated the confidentiality laws of every parent and student in our district by hand delivering to me a confidential file about scores for every student. How did she miss THAT file if her only reason to see the USB before me was to protect confidential info for other students? Because it wasn’t her reason. Her reason was to CYA. I remember that moment clearly when I realized what I had. I was soooo close to attaching the file to an email to every parent in our district and asking them if it was ok with them that everyone knows what’s in this file now. She would have been fired in an instant. Lord knows I would have loved that.
I didn’t have the heart to hurt other kids and families in the process. Almost a decade later that file still sits on my private hard drive and never went anywhere. Instead I requested another USB from the data department and specifically requested it go only directly to me and no one else.
The comparison of the two files was unreal. She deleted every interoffice email that showed collusion. They broke the law in countless ways, socially and emotionally abused both my sons repeatedly, and if I had been a rich person and had 30k lying around, I could have been able to sue the district into oblivion. Unfortunately the attorneys advising me didn’t take pro bono, even though they were salivating at the open/shut case I had, and the agencies that did pro bono were so overtaxed with case load they only took the most egregious disabilities, or the “best for headlines”. I was just one of many average families with a gifted kid whose disabilities masked their potential and whose potential masked their disabilities.
I was tempted to use a retirement account to make this school district pay. Instead a wonderful attorney who had his focus in the right place helped me understand that they would drag it out for a couple years and my son wouldn’t get the help he needed right then and there. He recommended we use my IRA to get him into a private school instead and protect his education.
We did that. He went on to achieve straight As, in AP and honors classes that the public school would have kept from him, and graduated with honors. He got an amazing scholarship too. It was the best decision we made.
🎶“If I were a rich man”🎵 I could have prevented the school district from ever doing to another kid what they did to mine, or doing to another parent what they did to me. I had the best documentional evidence they had ever seen (because I’m tenacious that way.) Sadly that needs to be paired with money AND the stomach to withstand the stress and anxiety caused to the family during the fight. I only lacked the money.
FOIA is amazing. Know the tricks they use to CYA and request delivery in multiple ways and compare the files you receive.
I'm surprised you didn't go to the local newspaper or tv station, shed a few tears about how unfair the school district was in treating your sons (and what they did). Then going to a local politician (with some dollar bills in your hand for campaign funds of course!) to plead your case. But we all know there are extenuating circumstances and you did what was best and most expeditious for your sons' welfare and that is what many of us admire you for.
@Juju-you're making me relive the agonizing school years of my now 46 year old son. One of his high school teachers said to me "Mrs. Wilson, your son is a lot smarter than I am and I'm not sure how to handle him." The school evaluated him in Kindergarten and second grades, found he was very bright but they didn't know what to do. We had him see the premiere child psychologist in our area who had a chat with said son, walked out of the room, walked up to us and said "Your son is obviously bright but I can't figure out what makes him tick." YOU'RE the freaking expert! You're supposed to tell US!!!
We finally made the school pay for an outside evaluation toward the end of 9th grade. It took twice as long because son wsan't particularly cooperative and it was with yet another premiere counseling center for kids in our area. Dx: Very intelligent, classic ADHD but without comorbidities which was probably why the school didn't catch on; he wasn't 'obvious' enough to take a closer look. Son quit school at the end of 11th grade, aced his GED (they said they had never had someone score that high before), and has foundered ever since. He's a successful freight train conductor but I'm wondering for how long (this is the longest job he's held). He also still live with us because, my opinion, he's terrified of the outside world.
Meanwhile, his daughter is married to her middle school sweetheart, 2 baby girls, owns her own home, and is finishing her second Masters. The contrast is stark. There's no doubt the school let him down and we, too probably could have sued although your case WAS a slam dunk.
It's a .380. I feel seen, though - when I was learning firearms, the Walther PPK .380 was one of my favorites (still is - that baby is smooooooth like butter). I found out it was Bond's preferred sidearm after the fact. 😁
Dave makes a deal. He’s going to sing like a canary.
Dave is the low man on the totem pole and with any luck his colleagues further up the chain are currently experiencing a case of full blown, bad lettuce/Metamucil overload, with a generous side of help me, I seem to have shat my pantaloons stomach discomfort and the resulting aftermath.
I hope they are sweating bullets, sleeping with one eye open— if they’re able to sleep at all, buttocks fully clenched, and that overall feeling of pending doom they have thus far managed to avoid.
I hope the “FOIA lady” (WHAT?) was actually on our side this entire time and screwed them over on purpose.
I hope Senator Ron Johnson (who has a big one) is anointed our honorary mascot of truth,
determination, and the patron saint of the American Way. I hope goofy but equally determined Senator Rand Paul gets in on some of the above
mentioned accolades.
I hope all of the actual good guys manage to ride the guys pretending to be good guys —right out of town in a cloud of shame, disgrace, disgust, and utter disrespect. I hope the pretend good guys are met in jail with nothing but contempt and a posse of huge jail mates with an ax to grind.
Not only do you have one of the most memorable Substack handles - especially for geezers like me -- but this was priceless... "and with any luck his colleagues further up the chain are currently experiencing a case of full-blown, bad lettuce/Metamucil overload, with a generous side of help me, I seem to have shat my pantaloons stomach discomfort and the resulting aftermath." Could not stop laughing!
And it’s wrong of me but I wish all of Fauci’s lettuce and most of the rest of his meat, vegetables and even desserts are equally parasite-filled, for the rest of his lying, conniving, days. I hope there’s a grant for Most-Doubled-Over-in-Agony-Due-to-Bad-Produce, and that he is voted for that grant, but barely misses getting it.
I recall seeing a handle somewhere, "KC and the Sunshine Banned". I also saw another one some time ago, "The Average White Banned". Gotta be doubly careful with that one these days! Oh; and don't forget 'Banned on the Run'.
I hope he spills the beans on all the bigger fish but I kinda doubt it. I'm guessing he's just gonna take the fall for all the bigger thieves and liars that are untouchable. Let me know when the billionaire architects of the plandemic like Gates and his ilk start going to prison then we might have something to celebrate. (I'm not holding my breath)
I voted "Dave makes a deal" because he obviously is unprincipled and crooked, so of course he'll try to save his skin. Hopefully he spills all he knows and gets us to second base with Fauci et al. But OMG it's painfully slow.
Since you brought up fall guys, it seems to me the Easy Out is to blame everything on Clueless Joe who'll happily take it since he's shuffling off to slobberhood anyway. "Sure, what's one more crime? or twelve? I'm nuts, remember? Robert K. Hur made it official in Feb. 2024! I'm the only government-declared-insane person to ever be President!!! Blame ME! I need SOMETHING for a legacy..." #probablytoolatealready
In all the TV series Mission Impossible episodes, when our heroes are listening to cassette taped instructions that “will self destruct in five seconds”, not once did we ever see them with a second device recording said message. So sad.
Dave is the tip of the iceberg, Jenna. Meltdown has commenced.
Dave has struck a deal to make his 78 year old lying ass as comfortable as possible. Others should be concerned.
Unless , of course, Dave commits suicide with a bullet to the rear of his skull. That is called a take down to protect the farm in DC.
I was just about to comment that I hope Dave has a good security detail.
Saaaaame. I would be TERRIFIED if i were him.
Me thinks he is, Bridget.
Amen, GG.
Agreed on the tip of the iceberg. It is mind numbing to think of all the other HHS data and all the other agencies/offices that do the ugliest part of their business while avoiding those pesky FOIA requests.
At the same time, I look with wonder on our country that even allows a FOIA process. What a great country - that is in the process of receiving quite a few course corrections. Most courses were made worse in the 2020-2024 timeframe with lamebrain in office...
I agree ... I think (hope) that this is just the beginning ... no one else (walensky, collins, et al.) has pardons. There are more fish to fry.
@Great- and we in WNY LOVE a good fish fry!!!
Oh, boy. I could see that outcome for sure. If they didn’t mind killing all us, Morons would be a shrug, and a silencer.
They are all Guilty of Conspiracy Evil Crimes Against Humanity Genocide Agendas for Profit while bilking taxpayers with Federal Government Consent Assistance Traitors Internment in Prison
My small hope is that if ANY of this comes to see light through MSM, it'll put the hated term "conspiracy theorist" to eternal rest.
I had a personal experience with FOIA in our local high school. My kids had disabilities and IEPs that were being severely neglected. They were painting me as a helicopter mom when I tried to hold them accountable.
“…apparently you could just fill out an official-looking form and the government [school] was legally obligated to comb through the entirety of its records—emails, memos, internal communications, the behind-the-scenes stuff we weren’t necessarily meant to see…” is true of public schools too.
Except, the director of Special Education knew what I would find, and so acted like she would do me “a favor” by collecting the USB from the data department on my behalf and I could pick it up from her office. 🤨 She had no idea the resourcefulness I had with data. Lol
We discovered she tried to delete all emails from the USB that showed she violated all the medical confidentiality laws, colluded with doctors behind our backs, and interfered with our complaints by conspiring with other staff to cover up the heinous things they did to our kid. We had files that presented strong lawsuits against two doctors too for violating confidentiality laws.
How I noticed was because I recognized the logic she used to search the files for anything with my son’s name in the subject line, but she missed files where it was on an attached document.
She also missed a database file that gave to me EVERY test score by EVERY kid in our district, for three years, and the excel spreadsheet where they actually labeled them “preferential treatment”, “financial supporter” (referring to the child having a parent that donated huge sums to the football field,) and, I kid you not, “hopeless”. 😆 There were more categories, but it was clear any student with an IEP and great potential got thrown into a one size fits all bucket where they would never get the assistance needed to reach that potential.
So she violated the confidentiality laws of every parent and student in our district by hand delivering to me a confidential file about scores for every student. How did she miss THAT file if her only reason to see the USB before me was to protect confidential info for other students? Because it wasn’t her reason. Her reason was to CYA. I remember that moment clearly when I realized what I had. I was soooo close to attaching the file to an email to every parent in our district and asking them if it was ok with them that everyone knows what’s in this file now. She would have been fired in an instant. Lord knows I would have loved that.
I didn’t have the heart to hurt other kids and families in the process. Almost a decade later that file still sits on my private hard drive and never went anywhere. Instead I requested another USB from the data department and specifically requested it go only directly to me and no one else.
The comparison of the two files was unreal. She deleted every interoffice email that showed collusion. They broke the law in countless ways, socially and emotionally abused both my sons repeatedly, and if I had been a rich person and had 30k lying around, I could have been able to sue the district into oblivion. Unfortunately the attorneys advising me didn’t take pro bono, even though they were salivating at the open/shut case I had, and the agencies that did pro bono were so overtaxed with case load they only took the most egregious disabilities, or the “best for headlines”. I was just one of many average families with a gifted kid whose disabilities masked their potential and whose potential masked their disabilities.
I was tempted to use a retirement account to make this school district pay. Instead a wonderful attorney who had his focus in the right place helped me understand that they would drag it out for a couple years and my son wouldn’t get the help he needed right then and there. He recommended we use my IRA to get him into a private school instead and protect his education.
We did that. He went on to achieve straight As, in AP and honors classes that the public school would have kept from him, and graduated with honors. He got an amazing scholarship too. It was the best decision we made.
🎶“If I were a rich man”🎵 I could have prevented the school district from ever doing to another kid what they did to mine, or doing to another parent what they did to me. I had the best documentional evidence they had ever seen (because I’m tenacious that way.) Sadly that needs to be paired with money AND the stomach to withstand the stress and anxiety caused to the family during the fight. I only lacked the money.
FOIA is amazing. Know the tricks they use to CYA and request delivery in multiple ways and compare the files you receive.
I'm surprised you didn't go to the local newspaper or tv station, shed a few tears about how unfair the school district was in treating your sons (and what they did). Then going to a local politician (with some dollar bills in your hand for campaign funds of course!) to plead your case. But we all know there are extenuating circumstances and you did what was best and most expeditious for your sons' welfare and that is what many of us admire you for.
@Juju-you're making me relive the agonizing school years of my now 46 year old son. One of his high school teachers said to me "Mrs. Wilson, your son is a lot smarter than I am and I'm not sure how to handle him." The school evaluated him in Kindergarten and second grades, found he was very bright but they didn't know what to do. We had him see the premiere child psychologist in our area who had a chat with said son, walked out of the room, walked up to us and said "Your son is obviously bright but I can't figure out what makes him tick." YOU'RE the freaking expert! You're supposed to tell US!!!
We finally made the school pay for an outside evaluation toward the end of 9th grade. It took twice as long because son wsan't particularly cooperative and it was with yet another premiere counseling center for kids in our area. Dx: Very intelligent, classic ADHD but without comorbidities which was probably why the school didn't catch on; he wasn't 'obvious' enough to take a closer look. Son quit school at the end of 11th grade, aced his GED (they said they had never had someone score that high before), and has foundered ever since. He's a successful freight train conductor but I'm wondering for how long (this is the longest job he's held). He also still live with us because, my opinion, he's terrified of the outside world.
Meanwhile, his daughter is married to her middle school sweetheart, 2 baby girls, owns her own home, and is finishing her second Masters. The contrast is stark. There's no doubt the school let him down and we, too probably could have sued although your case WAS a slam dunk.
This post is so fake, Jenna. I mean, come on... Everyone knows that Bond uses a Walther PPK, not a revolver!
Look out below…truth bomb incoming!
https://i.postimg.cc/dQ9F2NDh/IMG-2031.jpg
He used both in Live and Let Die.
https://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Roger_Moore
I had way more fun looking that up than thinking about Dr. Fauci. :D
100%!
The next thing you know, you'll be telling me he likes his martinis stirred and not shaken.
Or that his Astin Martin is auto and not manual (looking at YOU, Daniel Craig...)
@Your- sacrilege...
OMG, I stand corrected! Not sure which I would rather NOT be carrying... The snubby .38 or the Walther (isn't that a .32 -- like the Tomcat?).
It's a .380. I feel seen, though - when I was learning firearms, the Walther PPK .380 was one of my favorites (still is - that baby is smooooooth like butter). I found out it was Bond's preferred sidearm after the fact. 😁
@Your- I want one. I shall name is Babs since it's 'smooth likek buttah'.
@Russell- LOL
Dave makes a deal. He’s going to sing like a canary.
Dave is the low man on the totem pole and with any luck his colleagues further up the chain are currently experiencing a case of full blown, bad lettuce/Metamucil overload, with a generous side of help me, I seem to have shat my pantaloons stomach discomfort and the resulting aftermath.
I hope they are sweating bullets, sleeping with one eye open— if they’re able to sleep at all, buttocks fully clenched, and that overall feeling of pending doom they have thus far managed to avoid.
I hope the “FOIA lady” (WHAT?) was actually on our side this entire time and screwed them over on purpose.
I hope Senator Ron Johnson (who has a big one) is anointed our honorary mascot of truth,
determination, and the patron saint of the American Way. I hope goofy but equally determined Senator Rand Paul gets in on some of the above
mentioned accolades.
I hope all of the actual good guys manage to ride the guys pretending to be good guys —right out of town in a cloud of shame, disgrace, disgust, and utter disrespect. I hope the pretend good guys are met in jail with nothing but contempt and a posse of huge jail mates with an ax to grind.
🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
“…seem to have shat my pantaloons…” OMG I’m dying!!! HAAAAAAHAAAAHAAAA!!!!
Not only do you have one of the most memorable Substack handles - especially for geezers like me -- but this was priceless... "and with any luck his colleagues further up the chain are currently experiencing a case of full-blown, bad lettuce/Metamucil overload, with a generous side of help me, I seem to have shat my pantaloons stomach discomfort and the resulting aftermath." Could not stop laughing!
And it’s wrong of me but I wish all of Fauci’s lettuce and most of the rest of his meat, vegetables and even desserts are equally parasite-filled, for the rest of his lying, conniving, days. I hope there’s a grant for Most-Doubled-Over-in-Agony-Due-to-Bad-Produce, and that he is voted for that grant, but barely misses getting it.
Luckily for Fauci, vengeance isn’t mine.
Well thank you Russell. That made my day!
My initials are KC. I adore the (stupidly vilified) sunshine. I too am a geezer who loved KC and The Sunshine Band.
I recall seeing a handle somewhere, "KC and the Sunshine Banned". I also saw another one some time ago, "The Average White Banned". Gotta be doubly careful with that one these days! Oh; and don't forget 'Banned on the Run'.
KC and the Sunshine Banned— wish I’d thought of that! 😆
Someone keep a few eyes on Fauci to be sure he doesn’t flee the country to somewhere we can’t extradite him. I sure hope he has been losing sleep.
And this story will never make it into MSM! Can’t hate the MSM enough!!
And why did the Fauci pre-pardon go back to 2014? Very shady goings-on.
I wonder what leverage Fauci had on Biden that "earned" him the pre-pardon....
And beyond that, I wonder if the leverage was even on Biden. It's hard to imagine that Biden was running the show at the end.
They all learned from Hilary!! What a great example🤪!!!
"...so I bought two copies..."
Reminds me of the joke about the Kerry man, who would wear two condoms, "to be sure, to be sure!"
@Scot- LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hope he spills the beans on all the bigger fish but I kinda doubt it. I'm guessing he's just gonna take the fall for all the bigger thieves and liars that are untouchable. Let me know when the billionaire architects of the plandemic like Gates and his ilk start going to prison then we might have something to celebrate. (I'm not holding my breath)
I voted "Dave makes a deal" because he obviously is unprincipled and crooked, so of course he'll try to save his skin. Hopefully he spills all he knows and gets us to second base with Fauci et al. But OMG it's painfully slow.
I love the "fauci goes to jail" option. but we all know it aint gonna happen.
he will be k!LLd first. He can finger too may.
I am 78. So the "Dave makes a deal" is most likely
but with a side order of his getting run over by a bus or "jumping' out of a high rise window b4 he can say anything worthwhile.
Since you brought up fall guys, it seems to me the Easy Out is to blame everything on Clueless Joe who'll happily take it since he's shuffling off to slobberhood anyway. "Sure, what's one more crime? or twelve? I'm nuts, remember? Robert K. Hur made it official in Feb. 2024! I'm the only government-declared-insane person to ever be President!!! Blame ME! I need SOMETHING for a legacy..." #probablytoolatealready
Sorry, David. As naive as I am, I can't picture Ol Joe as a mastermind of ANYTHING beyond a trip out for ice cream. At least not in the last decade.
In all the TV series Mission Impossible episodes, when our heroes are listening to cassette taped instructions that “will self destruct in five seconds”, not once did we ever see them with a second device recording said message. So sad.