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CNN Made FOIA Request About DOGE—Only to Learn FOIA Staff Was Fired. (www.commondreams.org)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"Definitely never seen this type of response to a FOIA request," quipped one journalist.

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[–] [email protected] 118 points 4 months ago (6 children)

One thing I would like to say for people who aren't familiar and won't read the article:

Every federal agency has its own FOIA team, in this case the OPM FOIA team was slaughtered and flayed for sport. It's possible other agency's FOIA teams were removed, but also more likely that they still exist. This wasn't a blanket death of all FOIA, just the death of arguably the most important FOIA team

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

OPM is the most important? I don't even know that acronym

I would argue FOIA requests on the intelligence community is the most important

[–] rimmedalpha 34 points 4 months ago

Office of Personnel Management, basically oversees all US Gov employees.

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