Sluggish Record Output From Feds Stirs Court’s Ire

By Megan Mineiro, Courthouse News Service, Oct. 1, 2019

A federal judge pushed government lawyers Tuesday to explain why investigative bureau staffing has not grown commensurate with the tidal wave of Freedom of Information Act requests that courts are now enforcing. 

“It seems to me that they are just thumbing their nose at the FOIA statute because we are talking about years down the road,” U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said this morning at a conference related to requests from BuzzFeed and CNN.

Both outlets have requested extensive records from the FBI related to former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

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