Remember this post? To jog your memory the FBI would only use computerized searches to look up documents in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. Therefore many documents that could only be found via a paper search were missed.
Here's the intro to a story in yesterday's Washington Post:
Ordered by a court to search harder, the FBI has found more than 340 internal documents that it once said couldn't be found under an open-records request. But the bureau still wants to avoid or delay releasing them.
The FBI says it will take a while to review the documents before release, which may be true, but as Rebecca Daugherty, director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press FOI Center, opined, it probably would take less time to review documents for exemptions than going to court.
A bit off the subject, but in the recently received Spring newsletter, you said that the govt. spends $6.5 billion dollars annually to classify documents. That's outrageous!
Under the Bush Administration record numbers of documents are being classified, probably overclassified, and every man, woman, and child in the country is obliged to pay more than $20 a year for the favor.
Thanks POGO for doing what you do.
Posted by: OnBackground | May 26, 2005 at 01:26 PM
Don't you guys do anything but read the Washington Post, oh and sometimes the New York Times and let us know how you feel?
Posted by: Tired of U | May 25, 2005 at 07:33 PM