FBI’s Most Common FOIA Response: We Can’t Find It
· Story link Perhaps the FBI should start offering rewards to anyone providing information leading to the location of its…
Perhaps the FBI should start offering rewards to anyone providing information leading to the location of its public records. Cox Newspapers reported that the agency last year told about two-thirds of the people who filed Freedom of Information requests that they had no such records, “that we can find.” The problem: 91 million paper records and an outdated computer system that works, sort of, as an index card file. (9/05/06)