Jason Leopold knows a thing or two about the Freedom of Information Act. Buzzfeed’s senior investigative journalist currently has about 2,000 outstanding FOIA requests with federal agencies — 150 of them submitted this year alone. He says that while he found the penchant for government secrecy to be “really bad” under the Obama administration,
Journalist Once Called A ‘FOIA Terrorist’ Sees Uptick In Government Secrecy
While Congress tried in 2016 to improve access to federal records with the FOIA Improvement Act, it failed to earmark funding to help implement them. Some federal agencies still have enormous backlogs.
