FOIPA adventures

[Juan]

On Tue, 10 Nov 2015 14:19:49 -0800
coderman <coderman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/10/15, Juan <juan.g71 at 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 ;)