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There's very little reason to believe that the reassignment will actually come from teams working on either of those two problems. This argument is a really lon

There's very little reason to believe that the reassignment will actually come from teams working on either of those two problems. This argument is a really long stretch - especially because there are other ways of meeting the deadline than reassignment to the FOIA office (hiring contractors, adding employees, using interns or HR folk) - picking out a highly specific and avoidable method of executing the FOIA to attack the idea of doing the FOIA at all is...questionable, to say the least. Moreover, as a citizen of the US that has paid for the R&D of those vaccines through my tax dollars, I have a right to see the results of that research. This shouldn't be a controversial opinion. (it certainly wasn't when the House passed the Freedom Of Information Act 306 to 0 in 1966)

kongolongo 5y ago
>Moreover, as a citizen of the US that has paid for the R&D of those vaccines through my tax dollars, I have a right to see the results of that research. This shouldn't be a controversial opinion. (it certainly wasn't when the House passed the Freedom Of Information Act 306 to 0 in 1966) there's hundreds if not thousands of top secret military r&d projects funded by tax money that will never see the light of day regardless of foia, this isn't particularly special and could very well include classified info that needs to flow down very long approval and bureaucratic processes. Hiring more people and then training them on that process would just lengthen the time needed to release the info
elliekelly 5y ago
> This argument is a really long stretch - especially because there are other ways of meeting the deadline than reassignment to the FOIA office (hiring contractors, adding employees, using interns or HR folk) Reading a document and making an assessment of to the disclosure obligations under FOIA isn’t something you can just pluck an intern to do and hand them the box of documents.
belltaco 5y ago
>Moreover, as a citizen of the US that has paid for the R&D of those vaccines through my tax dollars, I have a right to see the results of that research. This shouldn't be a controversial opinion. Pfizer didn't take any US govt money for the R&D of the vaccine.

kongolongo 5y ago

>Moreover, as a citizen of the US that has paid for the R&D of those vaccines through my tax dollars, I have a right to see the results of that research. This shouldn't be a controversial opinion. (it certainly wasn't when the House passed the Freedom Of Information Act 306 to 0 in 1966) there's hundreds if not thousands of top secret military r&d projects funded by tax money that will never see the light of day regardless of foia, this isn't particularly special and could very well include classified info that needs to flow down very long approval and bureaucratic processes. Hiring more people and then training them on that process would just lengthen the time needed to release the info

elliekelly 5y ago

> This argument is a really long stretch - especially because there are other ways of meeting the deadline than reassignment to the FOIA office (hiring contractors, adding employees, using interns or HR folk) Reading a document and making an assessment of to the disclosure obligations under FOIA isn’t something you can just pluck an intern to do and hand them the box of documents.

belltaco 5y ago