Frustrating Docs Arrive

I have gotten some production on my FOIA’s in the last few days. The first one is related to this FOIA:

What they produced was a summary document indicating that 29 pages exist. The government has frivolously applied privacy exemptions that will crumble like a pile of leaves (at most they could argue to redact names, not entire pages).

The first question is whether this is supposed to be a single 302/1023 or the entire production for our FOIA. I don’t know the answer to that. A 1023 we believe to be for either April Lorenzen or L. Jean Camp is only 3 pages long. A 302 that another sleuth has brilliantly theorized is for Mike Mcintire of the New York Times is only 2 pages.

We know Rodney Joffe was a Confidential Human Source, and we know there is at least one other CHS in this general group. There are still 24 pages of this production to account for, if it is indeed the production for all the responsive records. Page 14 is a few symbols synonymous with the end of an email, which indicates at least one was attached to the 302/1023 of one of these interviews.

That obviously leaves much to be desired, and I didn’t expect the FBI to embarass themselves like this in a court.

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I also obtained some production on an old FOIA. In the late summer we’d gotten some production on this (they said they only had 5 pages):

At the time I noted that we knew there were more than 5 pages, because we already had hundreds by virtue of my Georgia Tech Open Records Requests. The government has now produced 309 pages of additional records, but STILL has produced any of the emails I already have. They are also frivolously applying the privacy exemption, which we will crush (although you can make some deductions it seems by character counting). Nothing crazy interesting, they all seem to be meetings - but maybe one of you will catch something.

Set 1

Set 2

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It’s a slow grind, but we are making progress.