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            1. The @knightcolumbia First Amendment Institute has a FOIA coup: liberating historic Office of Legal Counsel opinions, based on legal change that ended deliberative process exemption for stuff that is >25 years old. 1st tranche: 96 opinions from 1974. 1/? knightcolumbia.org/content/knight-institute-publishes-96-nixon-era-office-of-legal-counsel-opinions
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            Here's a cover letter showing how long the absence of straightforward legal authority to investigate domestic terrorism, per se, has raised a dilemma. 2/?knightcolumbia.org/documents/c2d5dd6518/20200428_Adequacy-of-Authority-to-Investigate-Domestic-Terrorism.pdf
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          In 1974, the executive branch believed it was lawful to wiretap an American citizen abroad without a warrant, but recognized there were a lot of murky issues with asking a foreign government to surveil an American on its soil. knightcolumbia.org/documents/18be3794bc/20200428_Wiretapping-of-U-S-citizens-abroad-for-governmental-purposes-.pdf 3/?
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        On the eve of the scandals that led to the Church Committee, DOJ privately acknowledged to itself that it had no idea what kind of warrantless surveillance other agencies (e.g. CIA) were doing on US soil, contrary to an executive order. 4/? knightcolumbia.org/documents/8673f70da1/20200428_Wiretap-Authority-for-Non-Department-of-Justice-Agencies.pdf
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      A decade before Iran-Contra, when Reagan legal team argued that a ban on sending support to the contras didn't/couldn't apply to the White House, Nixon OLC reached opposite conclusion about a legal limit on sending military assistance abroad. 5/? knightcolumbia.org/documents/17f780e437/20200428_The-applicability-of-22-U-S-C-2321b-a--to-the-President.pdf
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    Right after Nixon resigned, OLC concluded he personally owned White House papers he left behind. A bit of texture from the dispute that led to the Presidential Records Act, making WH records public property. 6/? knightcolumbia.org/documents/b944a876a2/20200428_Papers-and-other-historical-materials-retained-by-the-White-House-Office-during-the-admini.pdf
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