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FOIA Foot-Dragging
Last year, the New York Times reported that the oldest Freedom of Information Act request pending at a federal agency was a 1987 Church of Scientology filing at the State Department. Now comes word from the Project on Government Oversight that a federal court has ordered the IRS to comply with a judge's order dating back to 1976 requiring the agency to provide information under a FOIA request about its enforcement activities.
I guess this doesn't count as an older request than the Scientology example, since the IRS apparently had been providing the information in one form or another for many years. But under the Bush administration, the agency began withholding large amounts of enforcement data.
Tom Shoop is vice president and editor in chief at Government Executive Media Group, where he oversees both print and online editorial operations. He started as associate editor of Government Executive magazine in 1989; launched the company’s flagship website, GovExec.com, in 1996; and was named editor in chief in 2007.
