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February 7, 2017 09:02 am PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/sBCYfEUyYBo/trumps-fbi-doubles-down-on-h.html
Trump's FBI doubles down on hostility to transparency, switches to fax and snailmail for FOIA requests
The FBI has always been hostile to Freedom of Information Act requests: it habitually violates the law by allowing these requests to go more than 30 days without a response, and maintains a lab full of 1980s-vintage computers that it uses to (badly) fulfill public records request, so that it can reject requests on the basis that it lacks the technology to respond to them. But it's about to get a whole lot worse. (more…)
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