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FOIA News: FBI draws court's ire over McCabe records

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Judge slams FBI over stonewalling request for McCabe documents

By Jeff Mordock, Wash. Times, Nov. 4, 2020

An irritated federal judge Wednesday grilled the FBI for dragging its feet on her order to produce emails and text messages from former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe that may show conflicts of interest with his wife’s political campaign.

U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan said she simply did not understand why the FBI is slow-walking document production even after a May ruling ordering it to produce the materials.

Brenda Gonzales Horowitz, an attorney for the FBI, said the bureau is producing 500 pages a month, a number Judge Chutkan slammed as “unacceptable.”

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