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Ideally, the response isn't to hire more people to fight the FOIA requests, but instead to honor the requests.

• rlpb 2y ago
  The NSA said: "NSA is not required to find or obtain new technology (outdated or current) in order to process a request" (from https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2024/jul/10/grace-hopper-lost-lecture-found-nsa/ https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2024/jul/10/grace-hop...) That seems reasonable to me. The FOIA is about citizen oversight of government, and spending reasonable amount of taxpayer funds on doing that. This request would exceed that remit. As another commenter said, FOIA is quite rightly not an appropriate approach to demand public funds to be spent here.
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  • mjevans 2y ago
    I agree -HOWEVER- the government should retain the ability to transmit official records. This might include the transcription of outdated formats and technologies to new formats which are supported. It SHOULD also include release to the public domain BEFORE it becomes a burden to review the records.
    • fragmede 2y ago
      that's the library of Congress' job though, not the NSA via the FOIA's job. the LoC has the mission and resources to do exactly that.