The Obama administration spent $36.2 million defending itself in Freedom of Information Act lawsuits in its final year, The Associated Press reported Tuesday. According to the AP’s analysis, some of the biggest targets for record requests were the Justice Department.

News of an attack trickled out of Tacoma, Wash., just after dawn on a summer morning in July 2019. The details were fuzzy at first — one dead, a fire, the local ICE facility — but those who were close to Willem van Spronsen all said the same thing: They just knew.