You never know who you'll meet when you start hanging with open records. Examples of open records stuff in the news right now:
- The Project on Government Oversight says in this blog post that an audit of the federal bank bailout asserts that federal officials "were not entirely forthright when explaining their decision to inject over $100 billion in capital to nine major financial institutions last fall." Thus, POGO quotes the report saying, the government has cost itself the confidence of the people who need to support it in its attempts to stabilize the financial system. Click the link above for more. We've blogged on the bank bailout here, including links to ways to track the money.
- The Associated Press got Anna Nicole Smith's FBI file using a Freedom of Information Act. (I saw this first on Scott Hodes' "The FOIA Blog.") The documents show that the FBI investigated "whether (she) was part of a plot to kill her tycoon husband's son, whom she was battling for his late dad's fortune, but prosecutors ultimately decided there wasn't enough evidence to charge" her, the AP reports. Full story here. Sorry, we at Record Tracker haven't blogged previously about Smith. But we do have a bunch of interesting stuff about the FBI, probably the coolest agency ever to FOIA.
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