Lewis Kamb
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Investigative Reporter, US Right To Know Past: @NBCNews @axios, @seattletimes I ❤ the #PNW🏂 + public records #FOIA
Seattle, WA
Joined May 2009
Incredibly grateful to be a part of this team of tremendous journalists. Support local journalism!.
Congratulations to @dominicgates, @stevemiletich, @ByMikeBaker and @lewiskamb of @seattletimes. #Pulitzer
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RIP Ozzy Osbourne. Black Sabbath Lead Singer Turned Reality TV Star Dies at 76 - The New York Times
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As the lead singer of Black Sabbath, he helped invent heavy metal. On “The Osbournes,” he presented a comedic counterpoint to his rock ’n’ roll infamy.
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We've filed two FOIA lawsuits this week -- and are preparing a third -- against federal intelligence agencies for violating #FOIA provisions regarding our requests for public records. When can we expect transparency, @FBIDirectorKash @DNIGabbard @POTUS?.
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U.S. Right to Know has filed these FOI lawsuits a part of our investigation into origins of Covid-19 and gain-of-function research.
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In fact, our latest batch of records from the FBI, in response to a FOIA we sued over two years ago, is almost entirely redacted.
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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:
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(A few months earlier, the PREDICT team was taking credit for the RaTG13 discovery .
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Notable docs: Aug 2020 emails between UCD virologist Jonna Mazet & Peter Daszak, head of EcoHealth Alliance, in which they distance PREDICT from 2013 discovery of RaTG13 - then the closest known relative to SARS-CoV-2 (2/2)
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NEW Posted at 6.5K+ pages of docs obtained from Univ of Cal-Davis related to PREDICT -- the USAID-funded virus hunting project, which drew scrutiny during the COVID pandemic, that collected 10k samples from bats & discovered ~120 new coronaviruses (1/2).
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We're a nonprofit public health research group. We investigate corporate wrongdoing and government failures that threaten our health and food system. We work in the public interest to keep families...
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RT @garyruskin: Yesterday, we filed an appellate brief with the North Carolina Court of Appeals in our NC Public Records Act case against t….
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Justice Department reaches deal to allow Boeing to avoid prosecution over 737 Max crashes, per @AP .
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The Justice Department has reached a deal with Boeing that will allow the company to avoid criminal prosecution for allegedly misleading U.S. regulators about the 737 Max jetliner before two of the...
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New Orleans Police secretly monitored city streets with facial recognition technology for two years, per @washingtonpost
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Following records requests from The Post, officials paused the first known, widespread live facial recognition program used by police in the United States.
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As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got its start, like a previous one, in the wildlife trade, via @nytimes .
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As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got its start, like a previous one, in the wildlife trade.
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RT @garyruskin: Trump administration releases new statement on origins of COVID-19, but is still is not complying with the COVID-19 Origin….
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Text for S.619 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023
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Read our scoop about the DIA’s classified analysis here:
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A Defense Intelligence Agency analysis said the virus that causes COVID-19 could have been engineered in a Chinese lab and escaped to spawn the pandemic.
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👇Asher spearheaded the task force for the U.S. Secretary of State in 2020 that investigated the origins of COVID.
I told people in the media and wrote repeatedly four years ago that from early days US DOD and national lab analysts had highlighted the probability that COVID was created with synthetic biology. Well now, thanks to @USRightToKnow you you can see one of several presentations on.
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Always nice to see State Department staffers discuss how the documents we’ve #FOIA’d have been “redacted into oblivion…”
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Scoop: Via a #FOIA lawsuit, we obtained the US Defense Intelligence Agency’s classified analysis from 2020 about how COVID pandemic started. The scientific assessment breaks down how the virus could’ve been engineered at the Wuhan’s Institute of Virology.
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A Defense Intelligence Agency analysis said the virus that causes COVID-19 could have been engineered in a Chinese lab and escaped to spawn the pandemic.
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RT @garyruskin: US intelligence agency’s classified analysis offers detailed scientific view that COVID-19 may have come from Wuhan lab.Via….
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A Defense Intelligence Agency analysis said the virus that causes COVID-19 could have been engineered in a Chinese lab and escaped to spawn the pandemic.
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