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DOD misinterpreted the FOIA
By Anupama Narayanswamy Apr 24, 2007 9:49 p.m.A couple of days ago I followed up with DOD about why they denied our FOIA for correspondence logs earlier. Their denial was based on the fact that the records were too large and they wanted us to narrow our request. On talking to them I figured that DOD officials had interpreted our FOIA to include all documents and not just the logs of correspondences. So, they agreed to re-open our FOIA based on this clarification.
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Two Replies and Conversations with FOIA Officers
By Anupama Narayanswamy Apr 11, 2007 2:38 p.m.Today, we received a reply to our correspondence logs FOIA from USAID as an excel spreadsheet. This is only the second time we have gotten a reply in a format that can be uploaded and used to fulfill our goal of making the logs searchable using keywords. Here are the two replies we have received so far: from EPA(.xls) and USAID (.xls).
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The Paper Chase
By Anupama Narayanswamy Apr 9, 2007 9:35 p.m.For the past couple of hours I have been trying to get my hands on a letter that Senator McCain wrote to Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne on April 4 about requesting documents related to the Combat Search and Rescue helicopter program.
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SBA Doesn't Maintain Correspondence Logs
By Anupama Narayanswamy Mar 29, 2007 8:22 p.m.It seems that there's no standard way for government agencies to maintain logs of correspondence.
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Does the DoD use searchable databases?
By Bill Allison Mar 28, 2007 2:54 p.m.Reading over the letter that Anu got back from Will Klammer of the Department of Defense's Office of Freedom of Information, I'm beginning to get a sense that this project--obtaining logs of the correspondence that members of Congress send to all federal agencies--may be even more difficult than I originally thought. This sentence particularly jumps out:
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DoD Denies Our FOIA
By Anupama Narayanswamy Mar 27, 2007 8:50 p.m.We received a reply from the Department of Defense's Office of the Secretary of Defense and Joint Staff yesterday turning down the FOIA request we sent them for congressional correspondence logs. The reason given was that the
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My first two weeks...
By Anupama Narayanswamy Mar 23, 2007 6:27 p.m.My first two weeks working on the real time project has involved sending out FOIA requests to as many as 80 federal agencies. We are asking for logs of correspondence between members of Congress and each agency. Most of them have been via e-mail or online forms and around 25 others via regular mail.
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