As I’ve written about several times previously, the Department of Homeland Security has been making a serious and fairly impressive effort to improve their FOIA processing. The master blueprint for their scheme is something called the “FOIA Revised Operational Improvement Plan”, and as you probably know it lays out a whole long list of improvements, with target dates.
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There’s a certain fascination that can be generated old stuff, or at least antiques. Who owned my seventy-year-old safety razor before me? Where has it been? What have my 1930s Sheaffer fountain pens written? Where have they been? What have they done?
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