Nov 21: The Countdown Begins

Fresh out of court this morning with an important update. The Department of Defense has been unable to get any support for exemptions from Georgia Tech in relation to the DNC hack attribution analysis.

Therefore, on Monday, Georgia Tech was notified that the government will release the document on November 21. Georgia Tech’s sole remedy now is to move to intervene.

To do so would be a frivolous endeavor, and done only for the purposes of delay. I am quite ready to go toe to toe with Georgia Tech (likely with the benefit of discovery) if it comes to that.

As it is, Georgia Tech has their hands full with the Department of Justice lawsuit. Two days ago they filed a lengthy motion to dismiss with numerous attachments. I’m still working through it, but I generally believe that Georgia Tech’s motion is likely to fail. Still, their arguments and the attachments they uploaded would actually play in my favor in my FOIA litigation.

It’s unclear what exemptions will remain when the document is produced on November 21, but the court has been very clear that it wants a Vaughn index produced - which will give me alot to work with as well.

It’s a shame that it has taken so long, but we finally have a firm date. If Georgia Tech knew what they were doing, they would authorize immediate release, and they should have called in independent experts on all of this years ago and conducted a full internal investigation.