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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are we now advocating for a secret government with no citizen oversight or general accountability?

The new Just Trust Me government!

Yay for the JTM party [/quote]

OP here. Not at all. It's just how many people do you want processing and reading FOIA requests versus the people doing the mission work? 10 years ago we had maybe 1/10th the emails that are produced today. [/quote]

I hear this. I write FOIA requests. I've always known and respected that there is a real live human being that is on the receiving end of the request. These folks are absolutely getting buried and backlogged, especially with staff cuts. That said, this is a *precious* law and tool for our citizenry, and I'd fight tooth and nail to keep it. [/quote]

PP again. I will also say that it is possible to crappily write an overly broad request that is impossible to fill in a timely fashion. There's a way to do it right to get what you're after without gumming up an agency. [/quote]

As a FOIA officer I'd love to give you exactly what you're looking for. Very, very few reporters know what they're looking for. Most are fishing expeditions that want "any and all emails" pertaining to a topic and nearly all refuse to narrow a request. Buried is an understatement. And then we're sued for not complying with a 20 day deadline. [/quote]

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