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Edit-a-Thon for Democracy: Accountability for Lying to the Courts and Congress presented by Protect Democracy with support from Wikimedia DC

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November 10, 2021

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Articles for creation

Issue Area: Census - Citizenship Question
Description/Reason: Census official who aided strategists that used the Voting Rights Act as justification for adding a citizenship question to the Census
Issue Area: Custodial deaths of "Unaccompanied Alien Children"
Description/Reason: CBP has refused to release the video and other records of Carlos’ death to the public or Congress
Issue Area: Bernhardt Confirmation
Description/Reason: Relat instructed career officials to stop turning over responsive documents related to Bernhardt in a FOIA litigation once he was nominated for Secretary of DOI
Note:FOIA: Freedom of Information Act, which grants public access to federal agency records
Issue Area: Immigration
Description/Reason: Testified that ICE would not have DACA information, despite it being the case
Issue Area: Census
Description/Reason: Wilbur Ross's counsel; he worked on drafts of the DOJ's letter giving legal explanations to add the citizenship question to the Census, and refused to answer Department of Commerce and Congress' questions
Issue Area: Flynn Investigation
Description/Reason: Ballantine has altered a number of responsive documents despite the directive of courts
Issue Area: Bureau of Land Management Relocation
Description/Reason: Inspector General found that Bureau of Land Management officials misled Congress and used a false explanation to justify relocating employees
Issue Area: ICE FOIA Case
Description/Reason: Produced materials with excessive redactions, against Judge's prior ruling
Issue Area: PFAS
Description/Reason: Pushed to weaken regulatory rules around highly toxic chemicals (PFAS) without formal rulemaking process
State Dept. photo. Can be uploaded to Commons and added to article
Issue Area: Retribution Against Trump Critics
Description/Reason: Inspector General report found that the Acting Director of the Secretary's Office of Global Women's Issues (S/GWI)
Issue Area: Formaldehyde Report
Description/Reason: Advocated for the removal of formaldehyde from IRIS consideration
Issue Area: Global Entry
Description/Reason: Made false statement about access DHS had to state driver records in attempt to punish New York to no longer granting access to DMV database
Issue Area: Trump Campaigning NDA
Description/Reason: Testified under oath that that he has not spoken to the Trump Campaign's legal counsel regarding the NDA he signed, despite having done so prior to his testimony
Issue Area: Census - Citizenship Question, Issued false testimony on Census case regarding a DOJ letter[51][52][53][54]
Description/Reason: Issued false testimony on Census case regarding a DOJ letter
Issue Area: 2016 Election, Issued a misleading declaration[55][56]
Description/Reason: Issued a misleading declaration
Issue Area: Formaldahyde Report
Description/Reason: Suppressed EPA report about dangers of formaldahyde

Start class

Issue Area: Census
Description/Reason: Issued false testimony on Census case
Issue Area: Trump-Ukraine Scandal
Description/Reason: Authored misleading letter to Congress about the circumstances of Marie Yovanovich's recall
Issue Area: Retribution Against Trump Critics
Description/Reason: Inspector General report found that the Ambassador lied to Congressional staff about circumstances regarding rescinding the award
Issue Area: Custodial deaths of UACS
Description/Reason: Department of State refused to supply documents to Congress despirte their connection with the Ukraine impeachment investigation
Issue Area: Census - Citizenship Question
Description/Reason: Commerce General Counsel worked to draft the citizenship question as part of the Census, and connected Wilber Ross to individuals (such as Neuman) who would facilitate adding the question

C class

Issue Area: Formaldehyde Report
Description/Reason: Canceled meetings to prevent report from becoming public
Issue Area: Family Separation
Description/Reason: Incorrectly informed Congress that families weren't separated on the basis of illegal border crossings, and that zero tolerance only lasted six weeks."
Issue Area: Time Warner Merger
Description/Reason: Submitted an incorrect affidavit recounting a meeting between the DOJ and Time Warner executives
Issue Area: Trump-Ukraine Scandal[76][77]
Description/Reason: Issued inappropriate levels of redaction in produced materials, and misled Congress about circumstances around the hold on funding for Ukraine
Issue Area: Trump-Ukraine Scandal
Description/Reason: White House counsel & lead attorney during impeachment trials who obstructed proceedings and misled Congress
Issue Area: Census - Citizenship Question
Description/Reason: Hofeller developped the Voting Rights Act rationale for the Census' citizenship question
Issue Area: Trump-Ukraine Scandal
Description/Reason: Department of State refused to supply documents to Congress despirte their connection with the Ukraine impeachment investigation

B class

Issue Area: Census - Citizenship Question
Description/Reason: DOJ did not produce hundreds of documents to the court, despite them being responsive

GA class

Issue Area: Immigration
Description/Reason: Provided false testimony to Congress regarding involvement in family separation policy
Issue Area: Russia, Kavanaugh
Description/Reason: Russie - Ignored/defied a Congressional subpoena, Kavanaugh = White House Counsel when FBI turned over 4,500 tips relating to Brett Kavanaugh's background check that were never investigated
Issue Area: Black Lives Matter Protest
Description/Reason: Deleted a number of communication around state trooper response to Black Lives Matter protests despite laws stating police departments have to maintain a record of communications around official events
Issue Area: USPS
Description/Reason: Lied regarding changes made to USPS
Issue Area: Huber Clinton Investigation
Description/Reason: Submitted a false sworn declaration to the court in FOIA lititgation.
Issue Area: Census - Citizenship Question, Financial Disclosures
Description/Reason: Citizenship - Incorrectly claimed that the census citizenship question was the DOJ's idea during Congressional testimony, Financial Disclosures - Office of Government Ethics found that Ross submitted inaccurate financial disclosures
Issue Area: Bureau of Land Management Relocation
Description/Reason: Inspector General found that Bureau of Land Management officials misled Congress and used a false explanation to justify relocating employees

FA class

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Issue Area: Immigration
Description/Reason: Lied to Congress about the number of terrorists apprehended at border
Issue Area: Mueller
Description/Reason: Kushner misled Congress regarding his relationships to Russian connections
Issue Area: Huber Clinton Investigation
Description/Reason: Told FOIA official there was no directive regarding Clinton investigation, despite a directive being issued
Issue Area: Family Separation, Immigration
Description/Reason: Family Separation - Lies to court regarding amily separation policy and ability to stop metering at the border, Immigration - Misled by saying that "3,755 Known or suspected terrorists prevented from traveling to or entering the U.S" in FY17 despite not all of those being attempted land crossings
Description/Reason: State Department not responding to Congress' subpoena

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