FOIPA adventures
Juan
juan.g71 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 10 15:42:34 PST 2015
On Tue, 10 Nov 2015 14:19:49 -0800
coderman <coderman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/10/15, Juan <juan.g71 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > ...
> > So coderman, you've been doing this for months. What useful
> > information have your masters graciously given you so far?
>
>
> the full retrospective at 1yr mark in January, however, useful
> aspects so far:
>
> - wide variety of requests and processing activity, which is useful
> for discerning aspects of FOIA processing at agencies of interest.
f1 { so you got information regarding how the
information-denying bureaucracy works? }
>
> - learned indicators of obfuscation or delay, which in turn is signal
> to dig deeper, aggressively appeal and follow up.
f1 ()
>
> - used specific requests as leverage to open up additional
> information. E.g. the laser specific "Count of Kingfish devices" which
> returned counts, while purchase orders and other details around
> Stingrays and cell site simulators in general get a Glomar.
I can't say if that is surprising or not surprising.
>
> - other tidbits of varying interest. E.g. the multiple MuckRock
> articles making use of my responsive documents.
>
>
> [ all this in turn useful for sekrit $full_auto_FOIA project :]
>
>
>
> that answer your question?
Sort of. Thanks ;)
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