Republican congressional investigators are exposing Anthony Fauci.
Bureaucrats have dodged complying with the Freedom of Information Act — a law meant to ensure government transparency — by concealing official records, even intentionally misspelling words to thwart discovery of damning emails and texts.
This is hardly the first pandemic-related FOIA debacle.
In 2021, the Food and Drug Administration required only 108 days to grant full approval to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine application — but claimed it would need 75 years to fulfill a FOIA request to disclose that same documentation.
A federal judge lambasted the agency in 2022 and ordered a much faster response.
But in fact, FOIA has been a farce for decades.
There’s a reason why cynical investigators refer to it as the “Freedom from Information Act.”
The Drug Enforcement Administration denied a FOIA request made by a man seeking details about criminals who had once kidnapped him “because he did not have a signed waiver from the men who had held him hostage,” the Washington Examiner reported in 2015.
In 2017, a federal judge slammed the FBI for claiming it needed 17 years to fulfill a FOIA request on its surveillance of antiwar activists in the 1960s.
The following year, the FBI deleted the names of Clark Kent and Lois Lane from a letter that made reference to the famous Superman characters — because disclosing them in a FOIA response would “constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.”