Chief FOIA Officer Joyce Barr responds to Representative Trey Gowdy's (R-SC) questions on Hillary Clinton's compliance to federal records law and whether she provided the State Department…
Chief FOIA Officer Joyce Barr responds to questions by Representative Gerald Connolly (D-VA) on State Department's access to private emails from former Secretary of States Colin Powell,…
"Lois Lerner was the tip of the iceberg."
Melanie Ann Pustay, Justic Department Information Policy Director, illustrates how the Department of Justice complies with the Freedom of Information Act today.
Representative Stephen Lynch (D-MA) asks Chief Freedom of Information Officer Joyce Barr on past use of personal emails by former Secretary of States Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and…
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair Jason Chaffetz (R-CA) speaks with several senior agency officials on barriers their department's face in effective and efficient…
Rep. Chaffetz questions Melanie Ann Pustay, the Information Policy Director of the Justice Department, and their decisions on FOIA.
Rep. Chaffetz speaks with each testifying representative about the importance of government transparency and FOIA, saying that need to step up their performances.
Rep. Chaffetz grills Director Mary Howard about FOIA.
Congresswoman Plaskett questions odfficials from the Departments of Treasury, State, Justice and Homeland Security on their agencies' complience with FOIA requests.
Rep. Chaffetz opens the June 3 meeting stating that although President Obama has promised more transparency in the government, there has supposedly been less freedom and the government is…
Rep. Chaffetz swears in representatives to give 5 minute testimonies of their thoughts on FOIA and government transparency and the controversy.
backlogs of FOIA
Mary Howard (IRS) clarifies that requests from Congress are given "a certain level of respect and concern."
Mary Howard says hundreds of attorneys were working on "special projects team," processing Lerner/c4 doc request