> A FOIA office simply looks for any excuse they can use to deny a request if they want to deny it. The reason doesn't need to make sense or be their true reaso

> A FOIA office simply looks for any excuse they can use to deny a request if they want to deny it. The reason doesn't need to make sense or be their true reason. That's exactly what I was hinting at here. The agency has no interest in the public finding out how much of that feedback was bullshit. > In my experience it's likely that no technical people were consulted on it. From the sounds of it, they did at some point consult someone technical and tried to parse their answer as part of their justification for not executing the FOIA request. The fact that they knew it would take a script to extract the data as opposed to just dropping it into a search tool suggests as much anyhow. Though more likely it would just be a couple `sed` commands, a perl/ Python script, or a few command line tools.