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The office&#8217;s director, Walter Shaub Jr., has been conducting an unusually public discussion about ethics with the president-elect and the people he has chosen for his Cabinet.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Shortly after this article, I filed a FOIA request on January 16th, 2017, for documents relating to this crash.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I received the following packet of documents on February 15, 2017.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Declassified Documents<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/oge\/OGE-WEBCRASH1.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/oge\/OGE-WEBCRASH1.pdf\">Office of Government Ethics (OGE) Website Outage, January 13, 2017<\/a> [12 Pages, 0.5MB]<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/oge\/OGE-WEBCRASH1.pdf<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/oge\/OGE-WEBCRASH1.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Final-Redactions.pdf\">Additional Pages Released April 6, 2017 <\/a>[2 Pages, 0.9MB]<\/p>\n<p><![if !IE]><iframe src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theblackvault.com%2Fdocumentarchive%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F02%2FFinal-Redactions.pdf&amp;embedded=true\" class=\"pdf\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"height:1000px;width:788px;border:0\" width=\"788\" height=\"1000\"><\/iframe><![endif]><!--[if IE]><object width=\"788\" height=\"1000\" type=\"application\/pdf\" data=\"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Final-Redactions.pdf\" class=\"pdf ie\">\n \n<div style=\"width:788;height:1000;text-align:center;background:#fff;color:#000;margin:0;border:0;padding:0\">Unable to display PDF<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Final-Redactions.pdf\">Click here to download<\/a><\/div>\n \n<\/object><![endif]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background On January 13, 2017, Tamara Keith of KRWG\/NPR reported the following: The website at the Office of Government Ethics went down Friday afternoon, apparently overwhelmed with traffic, as the agency and its director found themselves at the heart of a growing political fight. 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