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We're spending TRILLIONS of dollars on this pandemic. TRILLIONS! These FOIA requests are not DOS attacks. It's very clear that some are very scared of what thes
by Mountain_Skies 5y ago
We're spending TRILLIONS of dollars on this pandemic. TRILLIONS! These FOIA requests are not DOS attacks. It's very clear that some are very scared of what these FOIA requests might reveal rather than a concern about the cost of spending 0.000001% of the response budget on it. Why are you personally so scared of what the documents might reveal? It's nothing to do with imaginary DOS attacks.
- Arainach 5y agoI am all for the documents being released eventually, but it takes time to remove PII from 450,000 pages of medical records (themselves very dense with PII). I am not in favor of releasing them prematurely with identifying information, nor am I in favor of requiring an entire department to stop their (more important than this process) jobs at the whim of someone who doesn't even know what they're looking for.
- lesuorac 5y agoIf by we you mean the FDA then no they are not. Additionally said trillions aren't allocated to redacting documents so it really is like saying w're spending trillions on the military so deploy the national guard to redact the files. It's apples & oranges. As outlined in the article, the FDA only has 10 people trained to do redactions and that's for all FOIA requests. Requesting 10 people to redact ~300k documents is going to delay (aka deny service) to anybody else requesting FOIA requests for the next year.