{"id":9580,"date":"2017-12-31T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=9580"},"modified":"2017-12-31T09:00:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T13:00:10","slug":"doj-coordinated-fast-furious-freedom-of-info-requests-from-me-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/doj-coordinated-fast-furious-freedom-of-info-requests-from-me-others\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ \u201cCoordinated\u201d Fast &#038; Furious Freedom of Info requests from me, others"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/110921_doj_sign_ap_328.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9581\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/110921_doj_sign_ap_328.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/110921_doj_sign_ap_328.jpg 605w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/110921_doj_sign_ap_328-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/a><strong>Sharyl Attkisson<\/strong><br \/>\nby sattkisson<br \/>\n12\/30\/2017<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><strong><em>The following is opinion and analysis<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><em><span class=\"dropcap\">F<\/span>reedom of Information (FOI) law was supposed to make it easier for all of us to get our hands on public documents that we own; documents that government too often tries to keep secret. But as I\u2019ve written about and testified to many times, including before House and the Senate committees, FOI law has been perverted by bad actors in government under both political parties so that it is a tool they use to obstruct, obfuscate and delay.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What happens when you ask to see a document the feds could put their hands on immediately? Gone are the days when they\u2019ll simply provide it. I\u2019ve had federal officials literally be holding a piece of paper in their hand that the public is entitled to see upon demand\u2014yet when asked, they require a formal, written FOI request. That request goes to the end of an intentionally long queue that equates to months or years of waiting.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>View the complete article including images and links at:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharylattkisson.com\/2017\/12\/30\/doj-coordinated-fast-furious-freedom-of-info-requests-from-me-others\/\">https:\/\/sharylattkisson.com\/2017\/12\/30\/doj-coordinated-fast-furious-freedom-of-info-requests-from-me-others\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharyl Attkisson by sattkisson 12\/30\/2017 Excerpt: The following is opinion and analysis Freedom of Information (FOI) law was supposed to make it easier for all of us to get our hands on public documents that we own; documents that government &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/doj-coordinated-fast-furious-freedom-of-info-requests-from-me-others\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9582,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580\/revisions\/9582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}