The Food and Drug Administration just answered my Freedom of Information Act request for its discussions with Big Tech companies on Covid "misinformation." You'll never BELIEVE what happened next.
Exemption 6 under the Freedom of Information Act protects information about individuals in "personnel and medical files and similar files" when the disclosure of such information "would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy." https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/oip/legacy/2014/07/23/exemption6_0.pdf
That exemption would cover the personal medical records of Brad Kimberly - but that is not what you requested. Total bullshit.
As someone who has been filing FOIAs for more than 20 years, suing the EPA twice and FDA once to get them to comply, I can tell you with certainty that our federal agencies no longer even pretend to provide transparency. Exemption 6 doesn't appear to legitimately apply in this case, and even if it does, the redactions would not be whole pages worth, they would be simply names of individuals and/or other identifying information about those individuals. They government is breaking the law when they send you wholly redacted pages like this. I hope you're going to appeal this and or litigate.
Hey we are in the big leagues now of Government thuggery and censorship, N.Korea, Chynaa, Cuba, Russia and now USA...great company we keep, what an absolute joke these so called leaders of ours are. Our founding fathers are turning over in their graves as i type. What a shame...
How anyone can trust anything our government says or does, at this point, is beyond me.
Every blank page is an admission of guilt.
Nothing says "transparency" like completely black pages...
you should demand hard copies. bankrupt them thru toner costs.
What's the point of the FOIA if they pull this kind of stunt?
Exemption 6 under the Freedom of Information Act protects information about individuals in "personnel and medical files and similar files" when the disclosure of such information "would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy." https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/oip/legacy/2014/07/23/exemption6_0.pdf
That exemption would cover the personal medical records of Brad Kimberly - but that is not what you requested. Total bullshit.
As someone who has been filing FOIAs for more than 20 years, suing the EPA twice and FDA once to get them to comply, I can tell you with certainty that our federal agencies no longer even pretend to provide transparency. Exemption 6 doesn't appear to legitimately apply in this case, and even if it does, the redactions would not be whole pages worth, they would be simply names of individuals and/or other identifying information about those individuals. They government is breaking the law when they send you wholly redacted pages like this. I hope you're going to appeal this and or litigate.
Well, clearly they believe Black Pages Matter (Inc)! How very woke of them. Weasels! and that's a diss to weasels everywhere.
So that is what a picture of The Swamp looks like.
Come on! That is epic. That needs to go into your next book. Publisher be like "You want to print x blank pages, you know it cost y per page right?"
On day one, Jen Psaki said the Biden Administration would "bring transparency and truth back to government."
How’s that working out?
I'd like to file my redacted tax return, please.
Hey we are in the big leagues now of Government thuggery and censorship, N.Korea, Chynaa, Cuba, Russia and now USA...great company we keep, what an absolute joke these so called leaders of ours are. Our founding fathers are turning over in their graves as i type. What a shame...
Seems like a reason to sue them for violating the FOIA rules.
About what I expect from Federal agencies ... nothing.
They are not hiding something. They are hiding everything.