I had a feeling that they were the ones behind our steep increase in FOIA requests recently.
The Heritage Foundation is a terrorist organization.
I get the sentiment but this is a misdiagnosis. The Heritage Foundation is a standard, logical product of the capitalist system. You could eradicate this organization, but capital has many more that are ready to take its place in the relentless regulatory capture process.
Definitely true. It isn’t even really a terrorist organization in that they don’t use terror and physical violence, but as you say the sentiment is kinda what I was going for. I don’t know how to properly express how I feel about them.
If the police department can ignore my FOI requests for over a year, I’m sure they can ignore these as well
“Fun” fact, criminal justice records are often subject to different rules than other records. In CO, we have 3 days to respond, or up to 10 if the request is so large that it needs an extension. The police, on the other hand, seem to just fart around forever. FOIA has a longer response time, but I’m guessing most federal agencies don’t get the leeway cops do, so getting a ton of these malicious requests back to back is a real pain in the dick. Speaking from experience, I’m glad I’m not the one dealing with these assholes.
Eh, if it’s all from one entity and all related to similar subject matters you can deny requests or roll them up. You can also start charging maximum fees in this situation.
We can’t really do that, at least not where I am. Denying a request has to be based on it being information that we genuinely can’t release to anyone, we can’t just determine we’re not releasing something because the requestor is a pain in the ass. We also can’t charge people unless it takes more than 2 hours of time per request - depending on how the requests are split up, they may not meet that time. I don’t know how FOIA fees work, so maybe it’s different, but I also doubt fees will put the very- well-funded Heritage Foundation off too much.
Among the documents they’ve sought are lists of agency personnel and messages sent by individual government workers that mention, among other things, “climate equity,” “voting” or “SOGIE,” an acronym for sexual orientation, gender identity and expression.
They’re literally trying to make a list of people to remove. And the MAGAts are blind to their hypocrisy like always.
I don’t think they’re blind to it, they just use their indignation as a cudgel, and when it comes down to what they want anything goes. They’re electing the embodiment of “might makes right.” They couldn’t possibly care less about hypocrisy as long as they get “to win.”
