In case you missed it, The New York Times had a really interesting piece on FOIA the other day. The money graf: On Jan. 4, The New York Times received a final response from the Defense Department to a FOIA request made on June 1, 1997. The department sent it by Federal Express, Priority Overnight. [...]
Filed under: 3. Access law, 6. Overcoming denials | Tagged: Freedom of Information Act, June 1 1997, New York Times | Leave a Comment »
Read this one carefully as the proud owner of an artificial hip (mine is NOT metal, thankfully!) in the New York Times: The federal government has received a surge in complaints in recent months about failed hip replacements, suggesting that serious problems persist with some types of artificial hips even as researchers scramble to evaluate [...]
Filed under: 1. Records that matter, 2. Doc state of mind | Tagged: FOI at work, Food & Drug Administration, Hip replacement, New York Times | 1 Comment »
From a great NYT profile on Austin-based anarchist (can an anarchist really have a base?) Scott Crow… Blogged here by Reason: Mr. Crow, a lanky Texas native who works at a recycling center, is one of several Austin activists who asked the F.B.I. for their files, citing the Freedom of Information Act. The 440 heavily-redacted [...]
Filed under: 1. Records that matter, 2. Doc state of mind, 4. Finding records | Tagged: Anarchism, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Times, Texas | Leave a Comment »
The New York Times with a great FOI-driven story on the expanding dragnet after the Bush administration eased up on rules about domestic intel: Within months after the Bush administration relaxed limits on domestic-intelligence gathering in late 2008, theF.B.I. assessed thousands of people and groups in search of evidence that they might be criminals or terrorists, [...]
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Expertly documented by this New York Times story in yesterday’s paper: Amit Jethwa had just left his lawyer’s office after discussing a lawsuit he had filed to stop an illicit limestone quarry with ties to powerful local politicians. That is when the assassins struck, speeding out of the darkness on a roaring motorbike, pistols blazing. [...]
Filed under: 1. Records that matter, 3. Access law | Tagged: India, New York Times, Right to Information Act | Leave a Comment »
