And yet, even when stepped all over, your paper will still do the regime’s bidding.
Via Daily Caller:
David McCraw, legal counsel to The New York Times newsroom, testified Tuesday that the Obama administration has a “culture of unresponsiveness” when it comes to fulfilling Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, and that the administration has made the Times wait years to get simple FOIA information.
“Last year, I filed eight FOIA lawsuits on behalf of The Times,” McCraw testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. “Much of that litigation was driven not by actual disagreement about legal issues but in response to unacceptable delay by agencies. In other words, we find ourselves compelled to initiate litigation simply to prompt agencies to act upon a request.”
McCraw called the process “wasteful and inefficient.”
“We called more than 10 times and left messages. Almost all of those calls went unreturned,” McCraw said about one request that the Times filed to the Department of Justice for budgetary information. “Finally we filed a lawsuit out of frustration.”