FOIA Advisor

FOIA News: POGO asks for investigation of DOJ FOIA lawyers

FOIA News (2015-2023)Allan BlutsteinComment

The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) has asked the Department of Justice’s Inspector General to investigate whether four lawyers “committed perjury or other crimes” while defending DOJ in Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Wash. v. DOJ, No. 1:19-cv-01552-ABJ (D.D.C. May 3, 2021) (appeal pending), a FOIA case concerning DOJ’s review of Special Counsel Mueller’s report about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Read the letter here.