On Tue, 10 Nov 2015 14:19:49 -0800 coderman <coderman@gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/10/15, Juan <juan.g71@gmail.com> 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 ;)