State Dept. Quietly Ends Controversial ‘FOIA Surge,’ But Questions Remain
By Alice Ollstein, TPM, May 29, 2018
The State Department has quietly ended the controversial “FOIA surge” launched last October under the since-fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Capitol Hill and State Department sources tell TPM.
The effort involved pulling hundreds of people from offices across the agency — including former ambassadors, former high-level leaders of bureaus and former National Security Council staff — and reassigning them largely clerical work processing Freedom of Information Act requests.
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