THE DEPARTMENT OF Homeland Security claimed four times within 48 hours that it had “no documents” in response to records requests from the Freedom of the Press Foundation late last year. These brush-offs raise serious questions about whether the agency is saving its documents anymore, much less creating them in the first place.

Each of our Freedom of Information Act requests was for records likely to exist, and any single “no records” response would have been suspicious. But four in rapid succession is enough to cast doubt on Homeland Security’s record-keeping practices and its compliance with the Freedom of Information Act.

These are the records we asked for and DHS claims it simply doesn’t have.

-All emails sent or received by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem containing the terms “CNN” and “ICEBlock”

-The complete archive of Noem’s Truth Social direct messages for her official account, @SecNoem

-All body camera footage from ICE captured as part of Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago

-The request the Secret Service made to the Army Corps of Engineers to raise the water level of an Ohio river to ensure JD Vance had a nice kayaking trip