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Biden Admin SUED for Hiding Secret Communications


A watchdog group filed two lawsuits against the Biden admin after they refused to release communication records from Interior Secretary Deb Haaland’s daughter.

Watchdog group Protect the Public’s Trust filed a lawsuit against the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management.

PPT filed the lawsuit after the DOI and BLM refused to comply to a FOI request that asked for “communications with Haaland’s daughter Somah and top agency officials.”

PPT filed the FOI request because Deb Haaland’s daughter previously lobbied on issues such as oil and gas the very same issues Deb Haaland oversees.

Fox News broke the story:

A watchdog group filed two federal lawsuits against the Biden administration Monday, alleging it has violated federal law by not sharing communications involving Interior Secretary Deb Haaland’s daughter.

Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT), a non-profit watchdog organization, asked a federal court in the lawsuits — one filed against the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the other filed against the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) — to compel the two agencies to comply with its information requests. On Jan. 2, PPT filed information requests with the DOI and BLM, asking for communications with Haaland’s daughter Somah and top agency officials.

The information requests, filed under the Freedom of Information Act which requires the federal government to publicly share certain documents, communications and information with the public, came after a Fox News Digital report revealed Somah Haaland had lobbied federal lawmakers on hot-button oil and gas leasing issues over which her mother has oversight.

Biden previously had this to say about his Interior Secretary.

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