Is there anywhere I can pick up raw flight data recorder information?
Unlike the AAIB, the NTSB does release FDR data dumps (adjusted for engineering units and culled to the same parameters as the graphs) as part of the docket release for a given accident -- no FOIA pestering needed!

See these examples from the Bedford, MA Gulfstream overrun crash, for instance (they're CSV files).  You'll be able to find more by looking through the dockets associated with recent major NTSB accident reports.