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Lewis Kamb
@lewiskamb.bsky.social
Investigative Reporter at U.S.Right To Know;
formerly NBC News, Axios, Seattle Times
Signal: lewiskamb.206
I ❤ the #PNW 🏂 + public records #FOIA 📑
Claim: Trump admin promises "maximum transparency" on COVID origins records

Reality: After for weeks ignoring a federal court order to process 500 pages per month in our #FOIA suit, Trump's DIA just released 92 pages—58 of which we already had.

The rest? It looks like this...
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October 2, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Despite the Trump admin's pledge to make more COVID origins intelligence transparent & a federal law passed 2 years ago instructing U.S. intel agencies to declassify & share with the public as much info as possible, we're still getting records from the FBI that look like this:
July 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Of course not, though the emails indicate the decision of whether to take or not take credit for its discovery was made out of the political convenience
July 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
For sale: Portland’s NBA franchise
May 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Always nice to see State Department staffers discuss how the documents we’ve #FOIA’d have been “redacted into oblivion…”
April 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
CDC source: “it’s a bloodbath.”

Firsthand perspective of today’s wide-scale cuts at the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention
April 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
AI-generated rendering of Beavis and Butthead.

Notice anything odd?
February 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Loved ones of victims of Boeing's 737 MAX crashes 6 years ago are questioning Trump's nominee for DoT dep sec, contending he obstructed a Congressional probe into the crashes & caused delays for safety reforms

"(S)uch behavior should be unacceptable," per letter to Senate trans comm chair Ted Cruz
February 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Word.
February 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
For the second time, a federal judge in Seattle, who was appointed to the bench by Ronald Reagan, has rebuked Donald Trump's attempt to rescind birthright citizenship as unconstitutional, via @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
February 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Powder day
#pnw
January 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
TikTok says it’s back, credits Trump
January 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Tik Tok app says it already “isn’t available” as of Saturday.

“We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution …”
January 19, 2025 at 3:45 AM
A Lynch-esque news nugget from my cops reporting days 25 (*cough*) years ago...
January 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Bluebird day in Whistler BC
December 28, 2024 at 1:08 AM
"In sum, the Committee found substantial evidence of the following..."

Full House Ethics Committee report on Matt Gaetz here: ethics.house.gov/wp-content/u...
December 23, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Um...
December 20, 2024 at 5:44 PM
You're nothing but a footnote ...

... in the December 2024 Bipartisan House Task Force Report on Artificial Intelligence
December 20, 2024 at 5:07 PM
TFW the only records you get back in response to a #FOIA request filed two months ago are your own emails - redacted, of course 🫤
November 20, 2024 at 1:56 AM