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FOIA News: Request for Pompeo's blank map deemed "complex"

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Can you point to Ukraine? It may be a while before you get your chance

State Department delays request for unlabeled map Mike Pompeo used to challenge NPR reporter

By Joshua Eaton, Roll Call, Jan. 28, 2020

Anyone who wants to see the map Pompeo used may face another challenge. Getting a copy could take months — or even years.

A simple request by CQ Roll Call for a copy of the map was put on a "complex processing track" Monday by the State Department because of "unusual circumstances." That treatment is meant for the department's most complicated and voluminous public records requests.

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