Freedom Of Information Act requests are apparently not worth much to the US Air Force. “Too little, too late,” says Federal Judge of USAF’s new (and, erm… unfunded) web-based request-tracking system.
[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.