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  • 'Hire some new redactors': How US hinders records requests

    04/11/2016 12:37:13 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 3 replies
    Associated Press ^ | Apr 11, 2016 3:32 PM EDT | Jack Gillum
    As U.S. officials dealt with the fallout of the government’s once-secret “Cuban Twitter” program, they had one thing on their side: notorious delays in the federal Freedom of Information Act. The government didn’t have copies of the documents, which formed the basis of an Associated Press investigation detailing a program on which taxpayers spent millions. But officials were worried that asking the contractor to hand over copies would risk making the details even more public. […] USAID’s calculus — realizing that the nation’s public-records law can be so slow as to border on unusable — comes amid new data showing...