Feds Charge $522K for FOIA Request

Wired by David Kravets | Nov. 11, 2009 (News Report)

The Treasury Department is charging more than $500,000 to process a single Freedom of Information Act request, about as much as it charged to process thousands of such requests last year. Full Story »

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