Earlier
this month, the Washington Free Beacon reported that the U.S.
Department of Justice “...has not challenged a single instance of a
federal agency withholding records from Freedom of Information (FOIA)
requestors since 2009.”
The
story, written by C.J. Ciaramella and published June 11, quotes a deputy assistant attorney general as saying that while DOJ’s
“...Office of Information Policy gives guidance to other agencies on
proper applications of FOIA exemptions, it has not determined that any
of those exemptions were improper in four years.”
Citing
George Washington University’s National Security Archive as a source,
Ciaramella goes on to report that, since Attorney General Holder’s 2009
directive to agencies to employ a presumption in favor of disclosure,
most agencies have ignored it.
http://freebeacon.com/doj-hasnt-found-one-improper-foia-exemption-since-2009/
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