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FOIA News: BuzzFeed Sues the FBI Over Andrew Breitbart Records Request

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BuzzFeed Sues the FBI Over Andrew Breitbart Records Request

By Tim Kenneally, The Wrap, April 9 , 2017

BuzzFeed wants some answers from the FBI about deceased conservative media figure Andrew Breitbart — and it’s willing to sue to find out.

BuzzFeed and journalist Jason Leopold have filed a complaint against the FBI, claiming that the bureau hasn’t done everything it can to answer their request for information on Breitbart.

The complaint, filed Friday in federal court in California, says that Leopold filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the FBI for “all records related to Andrew Breitbart” on Aug. 7, 2012, a few months after Breitbart died at age 43.

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