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"While the FOIA request does not explicitly refer to attachments, the scope of the request for 'all records reflecting communications' plainly covered parts of email communications that were in the form of an attachment," the judge wrote in instructing GSA to turn over more documents. "GSA's blinkered literalism, distinguishing emails from email attachments, is at odds with the agency's 'duty to construe a FOIA request liberally.' "American Oversight's original request, filed in April 2017, asked for records relating to the Trump presidential transition team's contacts with GSA regarding Trump's controversial continued status as owner of the Trump International Hotel that his company created in the federally owned and historically protected Old Post Office building.
Ali Da'amoush, a member of the executive council of the paramilitary and political Shiite movement Hezbollah, has claimed that that the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia had meddled in the May 6 parliamentary elections in Lebanon.
"The parliamentary elections are really sensitive because of some foreign meddling and the Americans and Saudis along with the Israelis are interfering in the elections by supporting certain parties in a bid to weaken the resistance and prevent it from forming a strong fraction in Lebanon's future parliament," Da'amoush told Iran's Fars news agency.
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