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The State Department has taken over four years on a FOIA request about how long it takes to process FOIA requests
What started out as a simple attempt to learn more about how the State Department processes FOIA requests has turned into a sanity-shredding saga that threatens to stretch into infinity.
The CIA took three years to reject FOIA request for criteria for rejecting FOIA requests
Curious about what criteria the CIA have for determining if they “can neither confirm nor deny” something? So did Jason Smathers, who back in 2010 filed one of MuckRock’s earliest requests for exactly that. Six years later, he still doesn’t know.
CIA’s FOIA manual trains officers in the art of obfuscation
America’s favorite bureaucratic behemoth, the Central Intelligence Agency, is notoriously one of the most difficult agencies from which to get a straight answer. And as their recently released FOIA guide shows, that’s exactly what their officers were trained to do.
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BOP Public Information Officer's Handbook
Michael Morisy sent this request to the Bureau of Prisons of the United States of America