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  1. New FOIA lawsuit: The NYT is seeking emails between a top Mulvaney aide, Robert Blair, and the OMB official who oversees foreign military aid, Michael Duffey, regarding Ukraine. (The White House is generally not subject to FOIA, but OMB is covered by it.) documentcloud.org/documents/6561246-OMB-FOIA-complaint.html
    1. …in reply to @charlie_savage
      Pursuant to a court order, the Trump administration had a deadline of 5 p.m. today to process all Blair-Duffey emails about Ukraine for our FOIA case. There are 20 messages (40 pages). The White House is claiming a right to keep them entirely secret. nytimes.com/2020/01/03/us/politics/trump-ukraine-military-aid.html
    2. …in reply to @charlie_savage
      The NYT is filing this as a related case to the @publicintegrity FOIA lawsuit for emails between OMB and DOD about Ukraine military aid. So it should go before the same judge, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, who ruled yesterday that those docs must be disclosed. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2019cv3265-17