{"id":5320,"date":"2009-03-13T19:41:24","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T18:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=5320"},"modified":"2009-03-13T19:41:24","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T18:41:24","slug":"fbi-declines-2-of-3-information-requests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/fbi-declines-2-of-3-information-requests\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Declines 2 Of 3 Information Requests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A private study said the FBI tells two out of every three Freedom of Information Act requesters that it can&#8217;t find the records they requested.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The study by the National Security Archive, a private group that publishes declassified government documents, said that failure rate is five times higher than other major federal agencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Archive awarded the FBI its Rosemary Award for the worst Freedom of Information Act performance by a federal agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The award is named for former President Richard M. Nixon&#8217;s secretary Rose Mary Woods who&#8217;s known for claiming to have accidentally erased 18 1\/2 minutes of a White House tape recording during the Watergate era.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The award is given annually around Sunshine Week, when journalism organizations promote open government and freedom of information.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An FBI spokesman said the reason for the huge number of no-records responses is that &#8220;it&#8217;s become a cult phenomenon to ask the FBI for records.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--stopindex--><\/p>\n<div class=\"Copyright\">\n<p align=\"right\"><em>Copyright 2009 by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/news\/2455821\/detail.html\">The Associated Press<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A private study said the FBI tells two out of every three Freedom of Information Act requesters that it can&#8217;t find the records they requested. \u00a0 The study by the National Security Archive, a private group that publishes declassified government documents, said that failure rate is five times higher than other major federal agencies. \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[41],"class_list":{"0":"post-5320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-latest-news","7":"tag-fbi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}