On Tue, 10 Nov 2015 14:19:49 -0800 coderman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11/10/15, Juan <[email protected]> wrote: > > ... > > So coderman, you've been doing this for months. What useful > > information have your masters graciously given you so far? > > > the full retrospective at 1yr mark in January, however, useful > aspects so far: > > - wide variety of requests and processing activity, which is useful > for discerning aspects of FOIA processing at agencies of interest. f1 { so you got information regarding how the information-denying bureaucracy works? } > > - learned indicators of obfuscation or delay, which in turn is signal > to dig deeper, aggressively appeal and follow up. f1 () > > - used specific requests as leverage to open up additional > information. E.g. the laser specific "Count of Kingfish devices" which > returned counts, while purchase orders and other details around > Stingrays and cell site simulators in general get a Glomar. I can't say if that is surprising or not surprising. > > - other tidbits of varying interest. E.g. the multiple MuckRock > articles making use of my responsive documents. > > > [ all this in turn useful for sekrit $full_auto_FOIA project :] > > > > that answer your question? Sort of. Thanks ;)
