The Obama FOIA timebomb
By Alex Thompson, Josh Gerstein & Max Tani, Politico, Mar. 31, 2022
For JOE BIDEN, there have been a lot of advantages to having once served as vice president: familiarity with the office, established relationships with powerful people, and a team of advisers with relevant experience.
But there is also a distinct disadvantage: People can dig through the archives of your prior work.
Starting on January 20, 2022 — five years since BARACK OBAMA left office — inquisitive journalists, opposition researchers, and amateur conspiracy theorists began filing a barrage of Freedom of Information Act requests (also known as “FOIAs”) to the Obama library.
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