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I didn’t realize FOIA requests were ever turned around so quickly (though I assume this isn’t the norm)

• boomboomsubban 6y ago
  Legally they have to reply in 20 days, though that's not exactly well enforced. One day is still quick, they were likely looking for a good outlet to announce what happened.
• Spooky23 6y ago
  It happens more than you might think. If it’s a request without privilege risk, workloads aren’t crazy and the requestor writes them well, same day service happens. Writing these things is like a grant, there’s an art.
• tgsovlerkhgsel 6y ago
  In this case, they sent a "press statement" response instead of a "FOIA response". The FOIA response would have been just the "there are no written records" part plus the boilerplate. They realized that this is a press story about to blow up, and that if they don't make a statement the press will just write "USSTRATCOM TWEET RAISES HACKING FEARS. WERE WE ONE KEYSTROKE AWAY FROM GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR?" with a "We contacted USSTRATCOM but did not receive a response [in the 3 minutes between asking and posting]" so they made a statement.