Air Force: File This Under 'Ignore'
by TChris
The Freedom of Information Act has little value if government entities simply ignore requests for information. A federal judge concluded yesterday that the Air Force does just that.
[U.S. District Judge Rosemary] Collyer found that the Air Force had no defense - or essentially conceded - that it had failed to respond to requests under the Freedom of Information Act for up to 18 years in at least one case. The Air Force also ignored appeals of its denials of access to records for up to nine years, she said. ...
In a 12-page opinion, Collyer chastised the Air Force for its "dismal record" in responding to requests by the [National Security Archive], whose collection of documents is used by historians, academics and other researchers interested in national security.
The Air Force thought the judge should be satisfied with "We promise to be better from now on." She wasn't, in part because its "new Web-based system for tracking FOIA requests" is unfunded.
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