[Political Junkie Too]

But's also the time it took to research, organize and collate the information. Somebody else who requests the same information will have to undergo the same collating all over again.

The object was to delay, not eliminate.

-PJ

[A Jovial Cad]

Exactly right, PJ. That was precisely my point.

[yazd]

It is my understanding (and experience) that the agency keeps a copy of what was sent out to the first requestor and then need only run additional copies for others. When I wrote to DOJ for the copy of what someone else had received, they said I only needed to reference his FOIA request and they were able, in advance, to tell me the exact amount of the check I needed to include. The materials (about 300 pages pulled from numereous files) arrived within a week or two; not months.