The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has issued a proposed regulation for public comment on implementation of the Freedom of Information Act.
“The proposed regulations address all aspects of FOIA processing, including how and where to submit FOIA requests, fees for record services, procedures for handling business information, requests for expedited processing and the right to appeal denials of information,” according to the notice published in the June 4 Federal Register.
The ODNI FOIA case log (pdf), listing the subjects of all FOIA requests submitted to the ODNI through April 2007, is available here (courtesy of James Klotz and Michael Ravnitzky).
Naturally, the fact that an item was requested does not necessarily mean that it will be released.
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